Christina Pirello
Christina is the Emmy Award-winning host of the television series Christina Cooks!, which airs weekly on over 150 public television stations nationwide and daily on CN8, The Comcast Network in the densely populated Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the country. She and her husband Robert publish a bi-monthly whole foods magazine called Christina Cooks that enjoys national circulation. Together they also operate Christina Trips, a travel company specializing in healthy vacations to exotic destinations.
Christina has written four best-selling cookbooks, Cooking the Whole Foods Way, Cook Your Way to the Life You Want, Glow, A Prescription for Radiant Health and Beauty and Christina Cooks: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Whole Foods, But Were Afraid to Ask. She’s currently working on her fifth book, which will feature tips on how to age gracefully and achieve health and longevity by eating whole, natural foods.
Christina holds a faculty position at Drexel University, where she lectures as a professor of culinary arts. She also serves on the board of The Farm Market Trust, and is a member of IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) and Women Chefs and Restaurateurs. Christina earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Fine Arts from the University of Miami, and was awarded a Masters Degree in Food Nutrition from Philadelphia’s Drexel University in 2003.






