Doreen Colondres is a Puerto Rican chef wine educator and food writer, who is the author of La Cocina No Muerde (The Kitchen Doesn't Bite).

[1] She has a BA in Business Administration and Marketing from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, WSET L3 Certified, and has studied at culinary schools in New York, Spain, California, and Florida.

[3] Colondres' first book, La Cocina No Muerde (The Kitchen Doesn't Bite), was published by Random Penguin House in June 2015, and became an Amazon bestseller.

[6] She was a food and wine editor of Meredith Publishing for seven years, and currently has columns in more than 20 magazines around the world.

[7] She has performed more than 200 live cooking shows in the United States to raise awareness of obesity and diabetes.