Diabetes Self-Management

Leticia Schwartz

About Leticia Schwartz

hef Leticia Schwartz is a cookbook author, a spokesperson and a television host who is passionate about food and cooking, health and fitness, and culture and travel. Born and raised in Brazil, Schwartz earned her BA in economics and worked in finance. In 1997, Schwartz moved to New York, where she studied at the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) and worked at Le Cirque and La Caravelle in New York City. She then studied journalism and wrote two cookbooks about Brazilian cuisine: “The Brazilian Kitchen,” which

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