About
Contestant on the 9th season of Food Network Star who became a co-host of the Cooking Channel show Junk Food Flip. She is also a cookbook author, blogger, radio host, recipe developer and professional voice over artist.
Before Fame
She was a very picky eater growing up, earning the nickname Picky Nikki, and forced herself to like things by trying new foods over and over and over. She had an online cooking show on YouTube.
Trivia
She classified herself as a semi-vegetarian, living by the ideology "meat-on-the-side." Her first cookbook was named after her ideology.
Family Life
She grew up in a big family. She married her husband Evan, a lawyer, in 2010. She was going to name her first daughter Willa, but suffered an unfortunate stillbirth at 40 weeks. She welcomed a daughter named Ivy in 2016.
Associated With
She competed against eventual champion Damaris Phillips on Food Network Star.