meet jackie

Jackie Newgent, RD, CDN, sure has come a long way since her earliest childhood creation of bologna-potato chip canapés. She’s a classically-trained chef, registered dietitian, award-winning cookbook author, and media personality. She’s passionate about plant-based cuisine. And she’s a lifelong fan of flavorful food.

Jackie is author of the media-acclaimed Big Green Cookbook (Wiley, 2009). She’s also author of The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook (American Diabetes Association, 2007) which was awarded the Best Health and Nutrition Book in the World by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2007. Stay tuned … her next cookbook, 1,000 Low-Calorie Recipes (Wiley, 2012), hits shelves and e-readers this fall. It features great-tasting “real” cuisine under 500 calories.

Be on the lookout, Jackie can be spotted as a culinary nutrition, diet, and “green” cuisine expert on television and radio. Past appearances have included The Dr. Oz Show, ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Now, NBC’s Later Today and Dateline, Food Network’s Follow that Food, and The Daily Buzz. She has been a repeat guest on Planet Green’s Emeril Green and Martha Stewart Living Sirius Satellite Radio’s Whole Living. Jackie can now be seen as  host of healthy cooking videos on eHow.com.

Her food articles, menus, and recipe features are regularly seen in national publications, including Health, Cooking Light, Woman’s Day, Coastal Living, and KIWI magazines. She’s an editorial advisory board member for Fitness magazine. Plus, as a culinary specialist, Jackie is frequently quoted in major national print and online media, including Redbook, SELF, and ABCNews.com.

Jackie is often invited to speak and provide culinary demonstrations at consumer events and professional meetings, including the International Association of Culinary Professional’s Annual International Conference, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, Go Green Expo, and Kids Food Festival. As a food media spokesperson, she can be seen throughout the country via satellite media tours. Some of Newgent’s clients have included California Tree Fruit Agreement, Seeds of Change, Paramount Farms, German Agricultural Marketing Board, and Scanpan. Newgent is a former national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

She’s a recreational chef instructor with the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City where she has been teaching hands-on cooking classes for over a decade. Jackie’s popular courses include Superfoods, Cooking for Fitness, Luscious & Lean Vegetarian, and All-Natural Cooking with Jackie Newgent.

Jackie is a consultant for “Healthy Children Healthy Futures,” a national after-school nutrition and fitness program targeted to city kids and parents. For the program, she wrote A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity–a 100-page, full color guide for parents based on the “8 Habits of Healthy Kids”. Plus she wrote A Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Grandfamilies.

Jackie received her B.S. in Allied Health Professions from The Ohio State University and Certificate in Professional Cooking from Kendall College. Her favorite hobbies include hiking, traveling, shopping, listening to live indie music, hosting parties, exploring New York for the most intriguing cocktails and tastiest hidden food finds, and, of course, experimenting with recipes in her “ecotarian” Brooklyn kitchen.