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Diane Kochilas is one of the leading experts on Greek and Mediterranean cooking, a passionate communicator who delves deeply into her subject matter and engages her audience with informative entertainment delivered with liveliness and characteristic immediacy. She is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, an IACP book award winner, the recipient of numerous other book awards, as well as a chef, cooking teacher, and entrepreneur. She runs curated trips to Greece and a recreational cooking school on her native island, the Blue Zone Ikaria, where “people forget to die,” as The New York Times wrote several years ago. Her online shop is the go-to place for artisanal, hand-picked Greek specialty foods.
She has been consulting chef at some of the countries top Greek restaurants, among them: Molyvos, Pylos, and Committee Boston, and has worked with Harvard, Yale and UMass to deliver health-giving Mediterranean recipes to their respective student dining services. Diane has made guest appearances on many major network shows, most recently on CBS Sunday Morning, Beat Bobby Flay (as a judge) and The Dish.
Her TV show, “My Greek Table,” airs in 95% of the United States, as well as in Canada, Australia, and, soon, China. In the U.S., average broadcast viewership is about 1.5 million people per episode. The series has been honored with a Taste Achievement Award (2020), nominated for 2 more in 2021, and was a runner-up for an IACP Digital Media (TV) award in 2019.