森山奈保美(Naomi Moriyama) is the bestselling author of Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat. She was born and raised in Tokyo and spent childhood summers on her grandparents’ hillside farm in the Japanese countryside. Naomi attended college in Illinois, where she gained 25 pounds eating pizza and biscuits before moving back to Japan and re-discovering the secret of her mother Chizuko’s Tokyo kitchen.
Naomi lives in Manhattan with her husband and co-author William Doyle, and travel to her mother’s Tokyo kitchen several times a year.