Mrs. de Spain is eminently qualified to compile this cookbook. She has been a toxicologist and a pharmacologist for the Food and Drug Administration. She was a histologist specializing in diet research at the University of Chicago, and she has conducted animal-diet research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the John Robert Powers School of Modeling and Charm and now teaches a series of her own courses in nutrition, creative organic cooking and total care for self and family.