Trudy Thelander

Trudy Thelander has been passionate about the flavors and health benefits of Mediterranean and Asian cuisines for well over a decade. She is the co-founder, along with Ric Watson, of the popular website MediterrAsian.com. Trudy and Ric, and their recipes, have been featured by USA Today, Parade magazine, the NBC Today show, Epicurious.com, BuzzFeed, the San Antonio Express, and Tufts University's Nutrition Navigator, among others. Trudy's first cookbook, The MediterrAsian Way (co-authored with Ric Watson), was named as one of the best cookbooks of the year by Southern California's oldest daily newspaper, the Santa Barbara News-Press.