Celebrity chef, television host, best-selling author, speaker, writer and mom of four Melissa d’Arabian is an expert on affordable and healthy family home cooking. With a lifelong passion for cooking and varied life experiences, Melissa naturally connects with today’s diverse families as she shares empowering food and lifestyle solutions that are part of a bigger story about how to eat well, be a responsible consumer, and spend with purpose – all while putting satisfying family meals on the table every day. Her distinctive ability to utilize tried-and-true techniques, smart grocery store savings strategies, and superior resource management skills while creating approachable family-friendly recipes as flavorful and elegant as they are affordable have made Melissa a trusted, go-to resource for home cooks everywhere.
After winning season five of “The Next Food Network Star” in August 2009, Melissa premiered her inaugural cooking show “Ten Dollar Dinners” proving a delicious budget-friendly meal can be made without compromise and always delivering on her $10 promise – four people, ten bucks, infinite possibilities. A natural extension of the relatable television series, Melissa’s first cookbook “Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week” debuted in August 2012 as an instant New York Times best seller. Her highly anticipated second cookbook – “Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating Well Without Spending a Lot”– debuted on December 30, 2014.
Melissa developed a strategic step-by-step program to combat the all-too-common picky eating issue, which she shares in the acclaimed FoodNetwork.com series “The Picky Eaters Project.” In her newest FoodNetwork.com web series, “Smart Carts,” she shares smart strategies to navigating and saving in the grocery store. Melissa also serves as a reoccurring judge on Food Network’s primetime competition series, “Guy’s Grocery Games.” She has also hosted Cooking Channel’s “Drop 5 lbs. with Good Housekeeping,” a healthy lifestyle series based on the magazine’s popular monthly column, in addition to a variety of appearances on Food Network primetime series including “Chopped,” “Cutthroat Kitchen,” “The Best Thing I Ever Ate,” and “Food Network Challenge.”
Melissa writes “The Healthy Plate,” a nationally syndicated column for The Associated Press. She’s also a featured expert on EverydayHealth.com as well as a contributing writer for Food Network’s FN Dish blog. (Bio from Melissa’s website)
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