About Dawn Viola

Dawn Viola is a research and development chef and food writer. She serves on the board of directors as Education Chair for both Slow Food Orlando and the American Culinary Federation Central Florida Chapter, and works with local and national companies as a healthy recipe consultant with a focus on special diets and food allergies as well as organic, local and sustainable ingredients.

After an accomplished career as a copywriter, creative director and documentary producer in the advertising industry for over a decade, Dawn switched her writing focus to food and enrolled in culinary school when she discovered she had multiple food allergies. She graduated with honors from the culinary management program at Valencia College, completed her externship at America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Illustrated Magazine in Boston, and began teaching others how to cook with a back-to-basics approach using local and organic ingredients.

Dawn’s work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications such as Food Network, BlogHer, Chef2Chef, SheKnows, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, Dessert Professional Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel and Edible Orlando Magazine. She has appeared on Food Network, Cooking with Emeril, and is a frequent guest on Martha Stewart Radio, Fox News and The Daily Buzz.

She is a professional member of the American Culinary Federation, Research Chefs Association and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, and is in the process of obtaining a dual Masters-Doctorate degree in Holistic Nutrition.

Follow Dawn on Twitter, Facebook and right here at DawnViola.com, named a top-ten food blog four years running,  and recognized by Chef2Chef, Babble.com and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution for her commitment to cooking with organic, sustainable and local ingredients.

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   anne says:

   January 10, 2012 at 3:34 PM

   will you be offering any cooking classes in the Clermont area in 2012?

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     The Test Kitchen says:

     January 11, 2012 at 5:51 PM

     Yes, I’ve got a tentative schedule up on the “current class schedule” page :-) Registration should be up next week.

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