About the author
Internationally acclaimed master chef, author, and presenter James Haller has written numerous articles, books, and personal stories about his journey to becoming an award-winning master chef. He was the executive chef, founder, and owner of the Blue Strawbery restaurant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Lee Fontain Carriage House in Memphis, Tennessee. He also owned and operated James Haller’s Kitchen, where he taught classes and acted as a food consultant. Haller is the author of three cookbooks, a food/fitness book, What to Eat When You Don’t Feel Like Eating, a book for feeding terminally ill people, which has sold over 800,000 copies, as well as Vie de France, a book about the month he spent with friends in the Loire Valley for his sixtieth birthday, where he renewed his love of cooking. Vie de France has also been published in Brazil and the Czech Republic. Chef Haller received the Granite State Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2000, and The Canadian Robert Pope Wellness Award for What to Eat When You Don’t Feel Like Eating. Haller spent ten years with Seacoast Hospice as a board member and volunteer, and also taught classes for the Association for the Blind, teaching unsighted people how to cook. Currently he is a frequent guest chef for restaurants in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, including The Wellington Room with Chef Patrice Gerard.