ABOUT CYD

Cyd has had a love affair with food her whole life. From growing up in a family of inspired cooks – a grandmother who lived on a farm and cooked straight from the garden, a first-generation Greek-American father who celebrated his Mediterranean roots in his garden as well as his kitchen, a mother who began her career as a “dietitian” in a grand department store restaurant and was the perfect hostess, and countless aunties, friends and mentors who shared their tables and their recipes over the years.  

What began as a passion turned into a career. Like many working actors in NYC, she found herself supplementing her income with work in the food industry. She wore many hats at multiple restaurants and catering enterprises, from cook to sous chef to chef de cuisine, to owner and eventually pivoted to a full-time career in food styling, recipe development and personal chef for select clients.

Cyd is a devoted Upper-Westsider and spends time off in Columbia County where she tends her vegetable and flower garden, cooks on her 1950’s Chambers Stove,  kayaks at sunset, chases her fabulous cats and enjoys throwing casual dinner parties with whatever is in season.

She has worked and dined with great joy across several continents and has been inspired by the culinary and work experiences in Helsinki, Paris, Uruguay, Ocean Point, Maine, Felt, Idaho and her hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. (Yes, that is actually a real place.)

Cyd graduated from The College of Wooster, volunteered for Gods Love We Deliver, is a member of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance, creates recipes and collaborates on special events for FarmOn! Foundation in Copake, NY.

SELECT CLIENTS

EDITORIAL: Bon Appetit, Food Network Magazine, Food and Wine, Food 52, High 5, House Beautiful, The New York Times, Jamie Oliver, La Cucina Italiana, Rachel Ray, Real Simple, Southern Living, The Kitchn, Weight Watchers

ADS: Aviator Gin, Bed Bath + Beyond, Buittoni, Campbells, Chinet, Chobani, Crown Royal, Eli Zabar, 400 Conejos Mezcal Artensanal, Gran Centenario Tequila, Louis Kemp Seafood, Macys, Ooni Pizza Oven, PF Changs, Serefina Restaurant Group, Seymour Sausages, Texas Beef, Tribe Hummus, Walmart, Williams Sonoma, Whipnotic

TV: GMA, The Today Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

COOKBOOKS:
Brain Health Cookbook (Annie Fenn, MD)
Supermarket Shortcuts (David Venable)
The Instant Cookbook (Coco Morante)
Practically Vegan (Nisha Melvani)
The Downton Abbey Series (4 cookbooks; various authors)
Farmhouse Rules (Nancy Fuller)
Ina Garten (6 Barefoot Contessa cookbooks)
Barbara Scott Goodman (Wine Time)
Adam Perry Lang (Serious Barbecue)
Jenn Segal (Once Upon a Chef)
Martha Stewart (Everyday Food)
Molly Stevens (All About Dinner)
Lisa Steele (The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook)
Lauren Wilson (The Walking Dead Cookbook)
Chuck Williams (Cooking at Home)

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Antonis Achilleos, Sang An, Cedric Angeles, Quentin Bacon, James Baigrie, Levi Brown, Monica Buck, Halle Burton, Jennifer Causey, Elizabeth Coetzee, Chris Court, Bia DaCosta, Reed Davis, Tara Donne, Miki Duisterhof, Melanie Dunea, Greg Dupree, Dana Gallagher, Alice Gao, Gentl and Hyers, Steve Giralt, Alexandra Grablewski, Raymond Hom, Rob Howard, Frances Janisch, John Kernick, Kang Kim, Yunhee Kim, Joe Lingaman, David Loftus, Jonathan Lovekin, Charles Masters, Jennifer May, William Meppem, Johnny Miller, Ngoc Minh, Amy Neunsinger, Marcus Nilsson, Helen Norman, Victoria Pearson, Peden + Munk, Jose Picayo, Con Poulos, Jamie Prescott, David Prince, Victor Protasio, Linda Pugliese, Andrew Purcell, Armando Raphael, Manuel Rodriguez, Deirdre Rooney, Tina Rupp, Lucy Schaeffer, Christina Schmidhofer, Ellen Silverman, Paul Sirasalee, Anson Smart, Seth Smoot, Evan Sung, Clive Streeter, Christopher Testani, Kat Teutsch, Michael Turek, Jonny Valiant, Mikkel Vang, Lauren Volo, Justin Walker, Anna Williams, Romulo Yanes, Isa Zapata