
Yvonne Maffei, MA is a graduate of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) where she studied Spanish and International Development with a special focus on both international business and international journalism. After several years of teaching, she decided to follow the dream of combining food and writing by turning it into a business and thus MyHalalKitchen.com was born. Today she is a cookbook author who not only creates and publishes recipes, but also teaches cooking classes, lectures on the meaning of halal and speaks whenever possible about the power of social media, marketing and why more women should be in business for themselves. She resides near Chicago, IL.