“Where do you live?” “What is your family like?” “Where did you ever get the idea of writing a cookbook?” “Where did all your recipes come from?” “How long did it take you to complete the cookbook?” - These are just a few of the many questions that we get asked when we talk about our cookbook.

First, let us give you some information about our family. We are the second and third born daughters in a family of eight children. Danielle is 23 and married and Lindsay is 21. We grew up in the Minneapolis area and spent two years of our childhood in the Philippines where are parents were working as missionaries. We were home educated all our schooling years and each of our siblings and us plays a stringed instrument. Currently our family lives in South Korea, assisting young families who are just beginning home education.

About six years ago, some friends introduced us to this whole concept of health eating. Slowly but surely we started to change our eating habits to include more raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds. The two of us had never cooked vegetarian food before, so we started creating our own recipes. We also took recipes that we liked and recreated them to fit in with our new diet. We know many people choose a vegetarian lifestyle “to save the animals” or use vegetarianism almost as their religion. This was not the case with us, rather, we chose to limit meat and dairy because we saw such wonderful benefits from this way of eating: Our mom lost 20 pounds without even dieting and her arthritis totally cleared up, we stopped getting colds all the time, our acne cleared up, and all of us had a lot more energy.

Soon after we made the diet change our family went on what we called our “Great Adventure.” For a year and a half our whole family traveled in a motor home throughout the US, visiting friends and the famous sights in each state. A lot of the friends we visited and the people we met we would share with them our new way of eating and give them our favorite recipes. Soon we had numerous people asking us for recipes. The two of us were always e-mailing these recipes to friends. Our mom kept telling us, “You girls are not using your time efficiently! You have to write a cookbook.” Of course, both of us said, “No way!” We completely rejected this idea, envisioning years of labor and little interest by the time the book would be completed. But, gradually, we started warming up to the idea of a cookbook and soon started testing recipes and becoming even more creative.

At the end of our “Great Adventure” our family moved to the Chicago area were our father did work for our Christian ministry. Our recipe book was first published there in 2000. A year and a half later we came out with the Two Sisters Video Series to further assist the many mothers who were incorporating the Two Sisters Cookbook into their family’s diet. Since that time we have reprinted the cookbook twice having sold over 7,000 cookbooks. We continue to do a lot of health counseling; sincerely desiring to help people in the area of health. The continuing driving force behind this whole project has always been our hope that we can truly help people make a healthy change in their diet. It has been our prayer that this book would change peoples lives as they discover that there IS a way to feel 100% ALL of the time!

One of the main reasons why we were able to write the cookbook is because we were educated at home. Our parents always encouraged us to focus our attention on becoming more skilled in those areas where our interests lie. Because we were home educated, we were able to devote much of our time to projects such as the cookbook and our music studies. Our family has had the privilege of being involved in worldwide ministries and has traveled throughout all Asia sharing our music with others. This has only been possible because we were always together working as a family every single day.

Through writing this book we became so much closer. We often meet people who say, “Oh, you're one of the Two Sisters!” And yes, we are ALWAYS linked together now, but we really do enjoy it! We are truly best friends, and we are so excited about working together to see our business and ministry expand and grow.