In 1954, upon graduation from
Phoenix
Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he received the
Solid bronze, prestigious Bausch & Lomb Honorary
Science Award. In 1996 he became a member of The New York
Academy of Sciences. During the 42 years in between he
served 3 years, as a technician, with the U.S. Army and
their Corporal Missile System, he attended The University
of Texas at El Paso from 1957-1963, while working as a
technical representative for the Bendix Corporation on
the Talos Guided Missile program, and then Served as a
guided missile research and development engineer until
1967. He also has worked as a Teacher, restaurateur,
lecturer, and Documentary producer. Since 1991 he has
addressed his full time and talent as an author and
teacher of Health and no fat cooking.
Norman
began learning all about cooking from his mother at the
tender age of five and by his eleventh birthday he was
required to put that teaching to good use. His mother was
placed in a sanatorium, struck down by tuberculosis,
where she was to remain for years. While his father
worked the night shift Norman was forced to cook for
himself and his little brother Jim, or do without! His
first effort was roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and
dill pickles. his selection of vegetables 
soon
expanded.
In 1991 he wrote
his first book, No Fat Please, a very successful
word-of-mouth underground book. In 1992 he needed a text
book on no fat cooking in order to teach at the Johnson
County Community College, so he wrote his second book,
Just No Fat. His third book, Favorite Foods:No Fat
Cooking, containing over 400 recipes of regular foods for
regular people, was published nationally. His fourth
effort was the beautiful 4-color book, No Fat Fudge, with
45 wonderful fudge recipes.
For his 5th book, entitled "DHEA & No Fat Cooking" he utilized 38 of over 4,000 possible research documents on DHEA in producing just the first chapter. His decision to address only those studies performed on human subjects quickly reduced the number of scientific papers to be considered.
All of Norman's books that are pictured here are available. Price list sent upon request.
Norman lives, works and cooks with his wife Brenda, in a vine covered cottage in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, surrounded by hundreds of flowering rose bushes, which is their other avocation.
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