CHRISTINA PIRELLO HAD a very sound reason for becoming a vegetarian at the age of 14. ‘I thought it would drive my father insane,’ says Pirello, whose dad — a butcher — indeed, was not ...

Christina Pirello's just a normal seaweed-eating, cancer-curing, potty-mouthed, redheaded chef. And America loves her.

What I didn’t know then was that when Christina was 26, she asked her doctor why she was tired all the time. To her shock, the answer was that she had stage 4 leukemia. She was given 6-9 months ...

Pirello's story is compelling - and led to her approach to cooking. She was a trained chef who, at 26, was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, and was told she had months to live.

When I registered weeks ago for this past Saturday’s cooking class with Christina Pirello—whose cooking show, “Christina Cooks,” airs on PBS—at West Philly’s Restaurant School, I was ...

Christina Pirello is the host of Christina Cooks, distributed by American Public Television. The popular chef and author of four cookbooks was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983 and with the ...

Christina Pirello has spent most of her career talking about how her vegan diet changed her life. These days the star of Public Television's "Christina Cooks" has a different message -- how her ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As folks make their healthy eating resolutions, it seems the Philadelphia restaurant industry are making it easier for folks to eat well. Vegan food chef Christina Pirello ...

South Philadelphia’s Christina Pirello of public television’s “Christina Cooks” thinks you can do it. “Things are definitely changing. People are aware of what they’re eating.

Have you already started to reconsider that New Year promise to eat better?South Philadelphia’s Christina Pirello of public television’s “Christina Cooks” thinks you can do it.“Things ...