James Beard National Scholar Northwest
2018

BU Women's Guild Scholarship Recipient
2017

Operation Apple
Real Food Media Film Library
2015

Oregon Mushroom Stories
Best Electronic Feature — Edible Communities Eddy Awards
2014

Hi, I'm Giselle.

My work—in the kitchen and out—is inspired by the ingredients, culture, and people that make great meals. My table is a celebration of landscape, culture, and identity in the many dishes and flavors of my embodied experience and those I have come to love. My cooking is the marriage of my Lebanese heritage with the seasonal bounty of my environment and often inspired by my long-standing love affair with Latin America and its food. Every meal by my hand is a family meal. I care deeply about biodiversity and it shows in my garden. I love tomatoes.

I co-authored The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods that Define the United States, published in August 2023 by Voracious Books. I have worked as a video producer, photographer, writer, event coordinator, marketing professional, baker, cook, and pop-up restaurant manager—sometimes all at once. Creating and hosting a great meal experience is my favorite thing. I spent a decade working as a documentary videographer specializing in food and agriculture before earning a Master's degree in Gastronomy from Boston University in 2018. I was named James Beard National Scholar Northwest for my field and thesis work in Argentina. I worked with Slow Food USA as the director of communications in the few years that followed. My clients include Slow Food USA, Neutral Foods, League of Kitchens, Ecotrust, Textile Exchange, ediblePortland, Smithsonian Student Adventures, the Good Meat Project (formerly Portland Meat Collective).