Aida Mollenkamp
Aida Mollenkamp is a chef, TV personality and food writer from Manhattan Beach, Calif. Aida's multinational cooking is inspired by her mother, an Italian-American, and her stepmother, of French heritage, as well as the multicultural scope of her hometown of Los Angeles. In 2008, she acquired her first cooking series on the Food Network, called Ask Aida. She then moved on to host Food Crafters on the Cooking Channel, a show where she sets out to search the country for interesting, handmade foods.