Nikki Dinki
Chef and cookbook author known for her meat-on-the-side philosophy.
Nikki Dinki is an American chef and cookbook author who came to prominence as a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star. She served as co-host of the Cooking Channel series Junk Food Flip, which aired from 2014 to 2016.
Quick Facts
- Born
- 11 May 1983
- Birthplace
- Clarence, New York, U.S.
- Spouse
- Evan Siegert (2010)
- Children
- 1
- Style
- Semi-vegetarian
- Television
- Junk Food Flip
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Biography
Nikki Dinki, an American chef and cookbook author, was born on May 11, 1983, in Clarence, New York. She graduated from Clarence High School in 2001. Before her culinary career, she appeared in a 2006 episode of The Sopranos titled "Johnny Cakes," playing A.J. Soprano's girlfriend Bibi. Dinki gained wider recognition as a contestant on the ninth season of Food Network Star, which began in May 2013.
On the show, she promoted her "meat-on-the-side" approach, a semi-vegetarian philosophy. She was eliminated on July 28, 2013, placing fifth. In August 2014, she filmed a pilot for a Cooking Channel series called Junk Food Flip. The pilot became a full series in April 2015, with chef Bobby Deen as co-host, and premiered on June 2, 2015.
Dinki married her husband, Evan, a lawyer, in 2010. During the ninth-season finale of Food Network Star, she announced her pregnancy with a girl, but later experienced a stillbirth at 40 weeks. She named her daughter Willa and created a recipe, Willa's Lemonade Cheesecakes, in her honor. In January 2016, Dinki was pregnant with her second child, due in April 2016.
She revealed in March 2016 that the baby was a girl, and her daughter Ivy was born in May 2016. Dinki is also the author of the cookbook Meat on the Side: Delicious Vegetable-Focused Recipes for Every Day.
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