Two-time cancer survivor Ann Ogden Gaffney discovered during her months of treatment for breast cancer that she was able to find powerful relief for her symptoms through cooking. Realising that other patients and families could benefit from the skills and techniques she'd learned, she began to offer advice, recipes and free classes to patients. A former fashion consultant, Gaffney realised after her treatment that her heart was no longer in seasonal colours and hemline trends. Instead, she wanted to help people with cancer and their families cook and care for themselves. In 2007,the charity Cook for Your Life was born. Its programmes have received funding from the NIH in the USA and have been embraced by organisations such as Columbia University's School of Public Health, Mount Sinai, Atlantic Health, the American Cancer Society and more. It has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. Now Gaffney delivers her highly anticipated cookbook, based on her classes. So many cancer cookbooks are too complicated to follow or too clinical and uninspired. This is the first cookbook to organise the recipes into categories according to the way patients feel - for example, "Simple" recipes when the patient is fatigued, "Safe" recipes when a patient's immune system is compromised and "Spicy" recipes when a patient is feeling better and needs to wake up her taste buds. With its warmth, authority, beautiful design and smartly conceived format, COOK FOR YOUR LIFE empowers patients and families to cook their way back to health.

Author Biography

Ann Ogden Gaffney is the founder of Cook for Your Life, a cancer-fighting nutritional programme endorsed by the National Institutes of Health in the USA which offers free hands-on cooking classes in person and online to cancer patients.