Melissa Donovan d'Arabian (born October 1, 1968) is a chef and an American television host. She won the fifth Food Network Star season in 2009. After her victory, she went on to host the Ten Dollar Dinners on the Food Network.
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Born in Anaheim, California, d'Arabian moved into his childhood to Tucson, Arizona; San Diego, California; and Bethesda, Maryland. During this time, d'Arabian attended several private Christian schools. D'Arabian's parents divorced when he was a few months old, and he and his sister grew up alone by his mother. Since her only mother financed medical school, Melissa found her passion for cooking and developing her very young budget strategy. In an interview with Food Network, he said, "That's where I learned about cooking as a way of showing people that you care about them." After high school at St. Episkopal School Andrew in Potomac, Md., D'Arabian attended Vermont University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. Melissa is a member of the Alpha Chi Omega fraternity. After a period of work on the yacht as part of the entertainment staff, Melissa studied at Georgetown University, earning an MBA.
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Initial career
After the birth of her four daughters, she decided to be a stay-at-home mom. Melissa applies her methods to save money on food while still providing delicious food, snacks, and "corporate fare" for her family. She starts talking to women's groups, sharing her budgeting techniques with other mothers, teaching them how they can cut their spending bills by up to 70%. A video made for local moms about making homemade yogurt will eventually become a recording of Melissa's audition, part of its application to the Food Network for the Five Seasons of the Next Food Star Network. Despite having no formal culinary training, d'Arabian won the fifth Star Food Network Star in 2009.
TV/Professional career
After winning the Food Network Star , d'Arabian launched its show, Ten Dollar Dinners . The premise of the show is to provide healthy and family-friendly recipes and meal ideas that cost under ten dollars. In each episode, he follows his Ten Dollar Promise: "four people, ten dollars, unlimited possibilities." In 2012, she publishes her first cookbook, <10> Recipes and Tips for Simple and Fresh Foods Every Night in the Week , which became the best seller of the New York Times. Also in 2012, Melissa began hosting events on the Cooking Channel, Drop 5 Lbs. with Good Housekeeping . She shares healthy recipes and lifestyle tips to help people learn how they can lose weight and still enjoy good food. She also appeared in several other Food Network series, such as The Best Thing I Ever Ate , Chop , Food Chain Challenge , and The Best Thing I Ever Made . Her recipes and budgeting tips have also been featured on Today Show, CNN, People, Food Network Magazine and iVillage.com.
Tips and strategies
At his show and in his recipe book, d'Arabian tries to offer easy food ideas that are not only tasty, but also budget-friendly. He said, "10 Dinners Dollars really celebrate the food and organize our household budget, it's much more than cooking cheap food.The recipes are not shouting cooking budgets, and there really is a clever way to maximize the impact of the expensive price. people learn one more from this strategy so that their tool kit gets stronger when cooking recipes from cookbooks. "In an interview with Food Network, he shared three of his top strategies from his 10" Ten Dinners Ten Dollar commands ":
Personal life
Relationships and family
On April 12, 1989, d'Arabian lost his mother to commit suicide. At that time, he was 20 years old and studying at the University of Vermont. d'Arabian describes the loss of his mother as a victim of his finances, logistics, and emotions. Since his mother's death, d'Arabian says that he respects him daily in various ways including raising his daughter, following his personal life mission, and creating something new each year on the anniversary of his mother's death.
While working in financial merchandise at Euro Disney, d'Arabian meets with her husband, Philippe. They currently live outside of San Diego, California with their four daughters: Valentine (born 2005), Charlotte (born 2006) and twins Margaux and Ocà © ane (born 2007).
Religion and confidence
d'Arabian identifies as a Christian and attends the First United Methodist Church in San Diego. He often speaks at public events about his struggle with his faith and his journey towards religion.
Charity work
After the death of his mother, d'Arabian declared that he entered the "tail of a decade". He attributes this time period to the isolation he feels because of the suicidal stigma. This experience caused the d'Arabian to engage in mental health awareness and suicide prevention. In particular, d'Arabian supports the reduction of stigma against suicide, mental health, and substance abuse and encourages people to reach out when they feel suicidal.
... I think as a special society for my suicidal experience, when we are talking about preventing suicide - and suicide is preventable - there is a whole spectrum of prevention options depending on the life cycle in which a person is located. For example, are they a survivor and need help to overcome them, like me? There are many risk factors for suicide such as alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, mental illness, bipolarism; there are many indicators and I think that as a society if we can eliminate the stigma of people who seek help for depression, we will help to kill ourselves. If we can eliminate the stigma of these risk factors, it may be as important as eliminating the stigma of suicide itself.
Since 2009, d'Arabian has worked closely with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). Initially, AFSP approached him after dedicating a recipe for his mother on the episode of The Next Food Network Star. She first got involved with them by offering her favorite comfort food recipe for the National Survivors of Suicide Day. Since then, d'Arabian has participated in the San Diego Out of the Darkness Community Walk, being part of the AFSP panel at the Couples Congress for Suicide Prevention and congressional briefing education, and donated $ 5 from every purchase of his cookbook at FoodNetwork. com for a one week period. In May 2013, d'Arabian was awarded the Survivor of Suicide Loss Award by AFSP. He also competed in Guy's Grocery Games, Chopped, and Cutthroat Kitchen for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
d'Arabian has volunteered with a number of other charitable organizations including teaching family cooking courses for Coronado Abuse Free Abuse of the Environment and tweeting mammograms for the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Movieography
Television
Bibliography
References
External links
- Food Network
- Melissa d'Arabian from Food Network.com
- Melissa d'Arabian is on Melissa d'Arabian's Facebook page on Facebook
- Melissa d'Arabian is on the Melissa d'Arabian Twitter page on Twitter
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