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Nadia Giosia (born May 12, 1980),[1] known professionally as Nadia G, is a Canadian celebrity chef, comedian, and punk rock singer.[2][3] She is known for hosting the television shows Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen and Bite This with Nadia G, both of which aired on the Food Network Canada and the Cooking Channel. Giosia also launched a feminist rock, comedy and food festival in Los Angeles in 2015 called Riot Grill and plays in a punk rock band called The Menstruators.[4] Giosia lives in Los Angeles, California.[5]

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Nadia G
Nadia G
Born	Nadia Giosia[1] (1980-05-12) May 12, 1980 (age 42) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Culinary career
Television show(s) Bite This with Nadia G Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen
Website	http://bitchinlifestyle.tv/

Early life

Giosia was born in Montreal, Quebec to a family of Italian immigrants and grew up in the borough of St. Leonard, Quebec.[6] She has stated that her interest in combining comedy and cooking is a product of her upbringing, where family gatherings typically centered around food and laughter.[7] Giosia has no professional training as a chef and is mostly self-taught with recipes developed from family tradition.[6]

Career

Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen

Giosia began her entertainment career doing sketch comedy in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[8] Her breakthrough came when her YouTube web series Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen was picked up by Food Network Canada in 2010 and then the Cooking Channel in 2011.[3]

Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen began as part of a comedy sketch series Giosia worked on in Montreal in 2005.[9] The sketch evolved into a web series, produced by Nadia and her business partner; producer and director Josh Dorsey.[10][11] The web series was ultimately picked up for TV by the Food Network Canada in 2010 before appearing on the Cooking Channel in the U.S. six months later.[8] The show ran for three seasons with each episode revolving around thematic elements, such as "Rehab Recipes" or "Breakup Bonanza".[6][12]

In addition to Giosia's "Nadia G" character, the show features Panagiotis Koussioulas as Panos the Meat and Fishmonger; Ben Shaouli as the Spice Agent Yeheskel Mizrahi; and Bart Rochon as Hans the "scantily clad food correspondent."[6]

In a Q&A interview on the Food Network's blog Nadia G. confesses that she hates baby corn and once ate so much buffalo jerky that she couldn't get her rings off.[13]

Bite This with Nadia G

Bite This with Nadia G officially premiered in 2013 on the Cooking Channel and ran for one season.[14] On the show Giosia interviewed chefs across the United States.[15] Bite This featured a 13-city tour where Nadia "tortured" chefs during in-kitchen interviews by looking up information from their social media so she can "hold it over their heads in the kitchen".[16] Some of the restaurants included Badmaash and Father's Office in Los Angeles, CA; Peg Leg Porker and Hattie B's Hot Chicken in Nashville, TN; and The Cecil in Harlem.[17]

Riot Grill

In 2015, Giosia cultivated an all-female fronted music, comedy and food festival at the Regent Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The show was headlined by punk rock band Babes in Toyland, as well as featured sets from Mexican garage punk band Le Butcherettes, L.A.'s Slutever, and Giosia's own band; the Menstruators. The event also included a stand-up comedy set by Sara Schaefer and a food menu curated by Giosia.[18]

The Menstruators

Giosia is the lead singer for the punk riot girl band; The Menstruators.[2] Founded in the fall of 2013, the band features Robin Feldman on guitar, AleJa sea Robles Luna on drums and Ken Christianson on bass and vocals.[19] The Menstruators regularly play dive bars around Los Angeles, including several sets at the Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.[20][21] The band made a short, comedy "rockumentary" in April 2016 featuring commentary from Giosia, band-members and fans.[22]

Web series

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Giosia has also worked on a variety of web projects including Getting Irritated with Nadia G, Creep Shaming with Nadia G, and Sick Kitchens.[23][24] Getting Irritated is a web series that features short rants by Giosia about a variety of topics that has been running since September 2013.[20][25]

The Creep Shaming series condemns online trolls by having celebrities read harassing social media posts, similar to Jimmy Kimmel's Mean Tweets series, highlighting specific examples of reprehensible conduct.[26] Giosia interviews guests and presents a "Golden Douchebag Award" to their creepiest harasser each episode.[26]

Sick Kitchens is a renovation show in which Giosa overhauls real kitchens.[27] The show aired on ULive, a digital platform set up by Scripps Networks Interactive that launched in 2013.[28] The show aims to teach people that "bold design [sic] choices can be beautiful", according to Giosia.[27]

Other television appearances

On July 12, 2011, she appeared on the American Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern episode "Montreal".[29]

On December 2, 2012, she appeared alongside Michael Symon and Benjamin Sargent on the Battle Holiday Gingerbread episode of Iron Chef America representing the Cooking Channel against a team of Food Network stars including Masaharu Morimoto, Robert Irvine and Ted Allen.[30]

On April 7, 2013, she appeared on Chopped All-Stars, Season 3 [31]

In October 2014, Giosia was one of 16 celebrity participants in Food Network's Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage tournament event.[32]

In 2020, Giosia competed on the CW show Fridge Wars, where she competed against chef Rodney Bowers.[33]

References

External links

• Official website
• Cooking Channel show profile
• Nadia G at IMDb

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