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Ms. Belsinger is a culinary herbalist, educator, food writer, and photographer whose articles and photographs have been published in The Herb Companion, Herbs for Health, Natural Home & Garden, Fine Gardening, GRIT, Kitchen Gardener, Organic Gardening, The Herb Quarterly, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Woman's Day, The Washington Post, and numerous other national publications. She has been featured in the Baltimore Magazine, Better Nutrition, Organic Gardening Magazine, Mid-Atlantic Magazine, Victoria Magazine, and The Washington Times. She has co-authored several best-selling, award-winning cookbooks. Susan has been the editor for the International Herb Association’s annual Herb of the Year publications. She compiled and edited their last six books featuring herbs of the year; the most recent, Horseradish, Herb of the Year 2011 is now available at www.iherb.org. the creative herbal home co-authored with Tina Marie Wilcox is the second in the living with herbs series published by herbspirit. not just desserts—sweet herbal recipes is the first in the series. She is working on a number of other topics. Besides gardening organically and teaching, Susan travels throughout the U.S. Canada and Europe giving lectures and demonstrations on subjects including herbs, edible flowers, chiles, garlic, gardening, cuisines of the Mediterranean from Italy and Greece to Spain and France; Southwestern cooking, vegetarian cooking, cooking with wild edible greens, cooking with kids, using herbs and essential oils for a healthy lifestyle in and around the home and for aromatherapy. Presently, Susan writes a weekly blog, www.vegetablegardener.com for Taunton Press at and was a contributing editor writing regularly for the Herb Companion for nearly 15 years. In the summer of 2010 and 2008, she taught a course for the American College of Healthcare Sciences on the isle of Syros in Greece on ‘Cooking with Herbs in the Mediterranean Diet’. Susan had a regular feature ‘Fresh and Flavorful’in Washington Home and Garden magazine from 2007 to 2008. In 2005, she completed an herbal apprentice course with Rosemary Gladstar. In 2003 and 2004, she wrote an article for each issue titled "Season's Eatings" in Natural Home magazine. Susan was a contributing editor for Vegetarian Times and wrote a monthly column titled "GoingVeg" for the year 2002. She has been moderator and coordinator, and presenter, for a number of day-long seminars on herbs & gardening for the Smithsonian Associates. Susan has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, The Willard Scott Home & Garden Show, National Public Radio, PBS’ Cultivating Life, Ultimate Kitchens, DeLiteful Cooking, and many national and local cable stations. She has given presentations at nationally known places such as the Atlanta Botanic Gardens, American College of Healthcare Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Colonial Williamsburg, Denver Botanic Gardens, Epcot Center in Disneyworld, Gilroy Garlic Festival, Hudson Valley Garlic Festival, Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Library of Congress, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, National Cathedral, New Orleans Botanic Gardens, Ozark Folk Center, Philadelphia Flower Show, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts, United States Botanic Gardens, U.S. National Arboretum, and University of Michigan.
Susan resides in Maryland with her husband, Tomaso, and daughters, Lucie & Cady. She has lived in Italy and California & has traveled throughout Europe, the U.S., & Mexico. She is a member of Les Dames d' Escoffier, Herb Society of America, International Herb Association, American Botanical Council and United Plant Savers. In 2010, Susan received a “Mousecar” and in 2009 the Great-American Gardeners award—both from the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival. Also in 2009, she was honored by the IHA to present the Otto Richter Memorial Lecture joining the list of recognized herbal honorees such as Steven Foster, Christopher Hobbs, Holly, Shimizu, Mark Blumenthal and Dr. Arthur Tucker. In 2006, Susan received the HSA Joanna McQuail Reed Award for the Artistic Use of Herbs; in 2004 she received a Professional Award from IHA for her outstanding contributions to the herb industry. Growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers organically, harvesting them at their peak, and bringing them into the kitchen to create healthy recipes is a way of life for Susan. She is passionate about herbs & her work-sharing the joy of gardening & cooking through teaching & writing-& inspiring others to get in touch with their senses of smell & taste.
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