Carol Kicinski

Carol Kicinski was diagnosed with gluten intolerance more than 20 years ago.

She founded Simply Gluten Free in 2007 as a gluten free recipe and lifestyle blog. Her readers quickly made it one of the top gluten free websites. Its purpose is to educate, assist and inspire those with celiac disease or sensitivity to gluten, dairy, peanut, grain or other allergenic elements. She even provides solutions for those with vegetarian, vegan, paleo and raw preferences.

Carol is in her fourth season as America’s first gluten-free-only TV chef with a monthly segment on Daytime, a nationally syndicated show on NBC’s WFLA Tampa Bay. She was also the featured cookbook author on QVC’s Gluten Free Special in April 2011.

She has published more than 850 recipes in newspapers and magazines and was a monthly recipe contributor to Martha Stewart’s Whole Living from 2011 to 2013. She has published two print cookbooks: Simply…Gluten Free Desserts and Simply…Gluten Free Quick Meals.

In August 2012 Carol launched Simply Gluten Free Magazine, a lifestyle magazine for subscribers and store sales with a full digital version. It enjoys robust sales in Barnes & Noble, Whole Foods Markets, Fresh Market, Wegmans, Kroger, Target and hundreds of health food stores across America.

As a humanitarian and adventurer, Carol has assisted the National Red Cross around the world and was one of the first responders at Katrina’s Central Command assisting the troops. She’s lived to tell about being charged by elephants and rhinos and has dived with Great White sharks in South Africa.

Fun, interesting, accomplished and adventurous, Carol’s simplest passion is making “that great recipe” and then having someone else make it and love it!