Biba is an Italian chef, TV host, award-winning cookbook author, and perhaps her greatest achievement, a cancer survivor. For eight consecutive years, her restaurant Biba has been voted Sacramento's best restaurant and her seven best-selling cookbooks have legions of fans. Since surviving breast cancer several years ago (with the help of her oncologist husband) Biba has been advocating good nutrition as a means to fight the effects of chemotherapy and to promote health in general.