Analise was born and raised in the city of Chicago and has been living in LA for the past nine years. She’s half Mexican, half Italian, and credits her cultural background, family, the diversity of Chicago’s neighborhoods and its residents, PBS, and her intrinsic curiosity as the touchstones to her interests in all thing’s food, eating, and cooking.
Many stints at baking bread in her employer’s oven (it was more reliable than her home oven) landed her, a self-taught home cook, the opportunity to cook for a post-production sound studio for five years. She’s recently taken a step back from cooking professionally but can often be found replicating dishes and baked goods from around the world in her tiny apartment kitchen. She enjoys cooking for her boyfriend, Michael, alongside her sous chef, who is oftentimes covered in specks of flour and chasing after bits of dropped food, their dog, Steve. She’s been recipe testing for Leite’s Culinaria since January 2021 and enjoys all of the inspiration and knowledge she receives from being a recipe tester and part of the LC testing community.
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