About Us
David Blackburn, a retired business executive, has extensive experience in product
design and development, project management, product launches, training and operational
management. He was honored to accept one of the office furniture industry’s highest awards in
product design (1997 Neocon Gold Award) and has created successful product designs and
inventions for both office and kitchen use. He has special expertise in strategic planning and has
orchestrated the comprehensive planning and management of several new start-up product lines.
Over the past 20 years, David has indulged his passion for cooking. He enjoys the creativity of
developing his own recipes and has cooked extensively for family and friends, as well as given
numerous home cooking demonstrations and informal cooking classes. While having eaten at many
fine restaurants worldwide, he prefers home cooking.


Andrea Van Wallenburg has more than twenty years of experience researching health and nutrition
and brings a wealth of knowledge to her work, with special emphasis on macrobiotic cooking and
organic farming. As the mother of seven children, she focuses on diet as it relates to health and
overall wellbeing. Having personally dealt with
multiple sclerosis for more than ten years, Andrea
has a personal interest in the role our diets play in health and healing. She has spent many years as
a consultant and personal counselor.

Born and raised in Toronto, Andrea lived in the San Francisco Bay area for several years and now
operates
Yellow House Bed & Breakfast, Retreat and Small Conference Facility, with her husband,
Johan, in Jurancon (Pau), France.

Andrea provides personalized diet consulting at
Your-Personal-Diet.com and is currently finishing her
latest book 'Famine in the West.'

Leslie Cartmill, is introduced in our Technical Guide.
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