Ruth Edenbaum was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She and her husband, Martin, raised three sons and a daughter to be delightful adults as well as dedicated foodies and Italophiles. For several years she wrote a food column called Eats of Eden. She has also taught cooking in the West Windsor Plainsboro Community Education programs to pupils who ranged in age from 5 to 85. She started traveling to Italy in the middle 1970's. Ever since her first trip, she has dedicated a portion of her energies to finding ways of returning there as often as possible. She divides her time between central New Jersey and Venice which she considers a second home. In 2003, she combined her love of Venice with her knowledge of food and cooking and wrote Chow! Venice with Shannon Essa. Now she is sharing her love of Italy and Venice in another way - through her photographs.

A frequent exhibitor at local juried art shows, Ruth Edenbaum has also had her photographs of food published in the Trenton Times. The front and back covers of Chow! Venice feature several examples of her work. More photographs are available on the Chowbellabooks website, and now, for the first time, they are available to the public through this site.