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Love letter to @ciaosamin, recipe on second slide 💌 New cookbook 'Good Things' is so delicious and this is a perfect microcosm recipe: unique, complex, shareable, giftable, and so snackable it's almost stupid!!! Sarit's ashura cereal on 10.11.25,
Last of the last summer harvest 🍑 Peach/rasberry vanilla galette as guided by @nicolaalamb 's pretty perfect galette recipe. I tore through her latest book "Sift" and it's made me really excited to bake!! 9/10 on 9.25.25 💗
You thought it was over?? I got my mom's kitchen back! Lets get it rq 1) blackberry jam was in order as soon as I saw our bush dripping with berries! I made a blackberry basil jam just to see the flavor and it's pretty phenomenal :) 8/10 on 8.17.25
Dedicated post to @osteriamozzadc birthday lunch I had with my boo 🥰😋 it was pretty damn delectable and I recommend trying to sneak a table for a weekday lunch ;) 9/10 on 6.9.25 ❤️
Let's try this again shall we? Here are the last things I made for myself before moving out of DC! 1) zucchini pasta with maitake fried in butter! This was good but rich, made with protein penne and sautéed, blended zucchini. 5/10 on 6.22.25
MAY. Let's get into it! 🌺 1) steak frites au poivre I was craving from a Paris bistro—always wish I had that green pepper that made their sauce so distinctive. Tried my hand once again at a perfect at-home French fry and it was only marginall
April recap! 🌮🥙🥪 1) another GREAT AMERICAN BURGER from @motzburger ! Cuban Frita burger on a roll with seasoned patty, cabbage, and bunch of sauce 🍅 7/10 on 4.13.2025 2) it's been the era of the steak taco for me, this was one of the first iter
Scarola e fagioli 🫛🥬 something I grew up eating and slowly enjoying more and more over time—there's just something so satisfying about escarole and white beans! Topped with parm, EVOO, black pepper, garlic chips 💘 8.5/10 on 4.21.25 this was

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Dumbarton Oaks

Digital Media Fellow 2024 - 2025

Managed and produced photo, video, and copy social media content on all platforms, September 2024 - August 2025

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Wonder Media Network

Social Media Intern 2024

Managed WMN Instagram ideating concepts from December 2023 - February 2024. All artistic production credits to Aria Goodman.

Mildred and Beatrix: Building Common Ground

institutional research project: demo digital exhibition

Academic

I semi dalla pianta madre: Le donne della Sicilia e il loro raccolto

Final paper (Italian language) for an independent supervised reading course (ITAL 91R) led by Giulia Sbaffi

A Tavola (2023)

Senior short film documentary following my father as president of L’Accademia della Cucina Italiana