Melis Amber

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Location
San Francisco Bay Area, California
School
New York University
Expertise
Vegan recipes, Middle Eastern food, Kosher food
  • Melis has been writing about food since they created a "cookie recipe" at the age of eight (their grammar and cooking skills have both markedly improved in the intervening decades).
  • Melis has a YouTube channel called Vegan Middle Eats, which features vegan Middle Eastern recipes. Though they have not updated it in seven years, the channel has nearly 500 subscribers.
  • Melis is not only adept at veganizing recipes, but also at making them conform to various dietary restrictions. They are extremely proud of their vegan, gluten-free, ritual-standard challah recipe.

Experience

Melis is a professional journalist with extensive experience producing content for the food space. In addition to their work at Mashed, they have also contributed to Tasting Table and Daily Meal. Melis previously served as a senior contributor to Geek Girl Authority, where they published more than 300 articles. They have also written for Autostraddle, Cuarto Poder, and El Público. Melis formerly worked as an segment editor at Backyard Boss and earlier, as the managing video producer at an international news outlet.

Education

Melis holds a bachelor's degree in film and television production from New York University. They were also issued a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages by Cambridge Assessment English.

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