Aida Mollenkamp

Aida Mollenkamp (born 3rd January 1978) is a Food Network personality and food writer. Her first Food Network series, the interactive program Ask Aida, began airing on August 2, 2008.

Mollenkamp received a B.S. in hospitality management from Cornell University. Following this, she worked as a hotel and restaurant consultant at Ernst & Young, then moved to Europe, living between Florence, Italy and Paris, France for two years. She received a Grand Diplôme from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in 2004.

Following her return to the United States, she worked at several different restaurants and hotels in the United States (including the test kitchen of California Pizza Kitchen and the Hotel Bel-Air, both located in Los Angeles, California).

Mollenkamp has been a member of the editorial staff of the San Francisco, California-based CHOW.com website since 2005.

Her mother is Italian American, and she grew up with a French stepmother. She lives in San Francisco, California.