Naomi Moriyama is a U.S. – Japan marketing consultant who works with some of the world’s leading fashion, consumer and luxury brands and hedge funds. She is also a judge on the Food Network's acclaimed Iron Chef America.

Naomi was born and raised in Tokyo, and spent childhood summers on her grandparents’ hillside farm in the Japanese countryside, eating tangerines from the trees and fresh vegetables from the family garden.

She attended college in Illinois, where she gained 25 pounds eating pizza, burgers and banana splits before moving back to Japan and re-discovering the secrets of her mother Chizuko’s Tokyo kitchen.
She moved to New York in her 20s and worked as Account Executive for Grey Advertising on the Procter & Gamble account and as Director of Marketing for Home Box Office.

Three years ago, at the age of 42, she was required to display her photo ID at a New York wine store to prove she was over 21.
Naomi lives in Manhattan with her husband and co-author William Doyle and travels to her mother’s Tokyo kitchen several times a year. This is her first book.

William Doyle is author of “Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes From FDR to Clinton”, a New York Times Notable Book of 1999 and “An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962,” which in 2002 won book awards from The American Bar Association and The American Library Association. In 2004 he co-authored “Dome Raiders: How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time” with Detective Chief Superintendent Jon Shatford of the London Metropolitan Police. In 1998 he won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best TV Documentary for the A&E special “The Secret White House Tapes” and he also served as director of original programming for HBO in New York. He was born in New York and has traveled widely in Japan.

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Naomi during her 1st week in America. (100 pounds)

Naomi after 2 months of eating American-style food and portions (125 pounds)

Billy in 2000, weighing 220-plus pounds, or technically obese.

Billy today after 5 years of Japan-style eating (185 pounds)

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