about me

From the Himalayas to Your Heart

Chery Smith is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota and has a keen interest in how culture affects food, nutrition, and health. Throughout her career, she has published 83 peer-reviewed articles and contributed a chapter on the nutritional status of Nepali women to Handbook of the Himalayas: Environment, Growth and Welfare. Dr. Smith had a great passion in traveling and gaining knowledge in different cultures and this exposed her to become a Peace corps volunteer in Nepal, an experience she written to in book From the Himalayas to Your Heart. In her leisure time, she likes photography, traveling and playing a board game called Mah Jangg.