About Carol

Carol Fenster is the author of 13 gluten-free cookbooks for people with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Her latest cookbook, Gluten-Free Cooking for Two (April, 2017) joins her award-winning cookbooks such as Gluten-Free 101, 100 Best Gluten-Free Recipes (—one of the Denver Post’s “2010 Best Cookbooks” and Natural Solutions magazine’s “Top 12 Cookbooks from 2010”) and 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes. All of her cookbooks, including her vegetarian (mostly vegan) cookbook—125 Gluten-Free Vegetarian Recipes—are available wherever books are sold.

Carol’s pioneering efforts to bring gluten-free cooking information to the millions who need it led to her induction into the invitation-only Les Dames d’ Escoffier International. She taught gluten-free cooking classes at the famed Rancho La Puerta Spa and Resort in Mexico. She developed gluten-free products for industry leader Bob’s Red Mill and appears on PBS, the Health Network as well as many radio, newspaper, and web sites. She has been a spokesperson for the United Sorghum Checkoff and a guest speaker at the American Dietetic Association, Canadian Dietetic Association, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Whole Grains Council, Disney, National Product Expo, FoodEX in Tokyo, and the Institute for Biophysics and Genetics in Italy.

She is the former associate food editor at Living Without (now Gluten-Free and More) magazine, and her articles, recipes, quotes, photos, and reviews of her books appear in USA Today, Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, Woman’s World, Vegetarian Times, Delicious Living, Today’s Dietitian, Living Without, Gluten-Free Living, Energy Times, Better Nutrition, Taste for Life, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, and Edible Front Range.

Carol Fenster offers consulting services, such as developing gluten-free products and recipes for manufacturers. She co-authored “Pulses in the Gluten-Free Diet” for the Canadian Pulse Association; and she has consulted with corporations in Italy, Japan, Canada, and Mexico.

Carol Fenster is represented by The Lisa Ekus Group at www.lisaekus.com.