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Nycci Nellis
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Founder and Publisher, The List Are You On It
Washington, D.C., United States
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Biography
“How does she always get the inside scoop?” One of the DC area’s best known and most respected food, Wine, and hospitality journalists, Nycci Nellis sits atop an impressive offering of dining out/going out/dining in media platforms. Locally/globally recognized as the Greater Washington region’s “go-to” source for the latest on what’s happening across the edibles, potables and parties and party scene, she is: • Founder and publisher of TheListAreYouOnIt.com (The List), since 2004 aggregating and updating the latest info for everything happening across the regional, food and beverage landscape. • A featured presenter on WTOP 103.5 FM, the DC area’s top-rated radio station • Co-host of DC’s Number One food, wine and spirits variety show, Foodie and the Beast. Now in its 15th year, the one-hour show airs weekly on 1500 AM and focuses on what we eat and drink, how and why, and features a lively mix of established and emerging, local-to-global celebrities and personalities who dominate and innovate in the restaurants, vineyards, farms, breweries, distilleries, cocktail bars, seafood farms, and more that feed our need for delicious, nourishing, food and drink. Show guests since the first airing in 2008 represent a "Who's who" of locally-, nationally- and internationally-celebrated chefs, mixologists, brewmasters, winemakers, food journalists, authors. and other luminaries, such as Jean-George Vongerichten; Thomas Keller; Wolfgang Puck; Eric Ripert; Rick Bayless; Michael Mina; Michel Richard; Top Chef-testants Spike Mendelsohn, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, and Marjorie Meek Bradley; cookbook authors and food and wine journalists and authors, such as have included Marcella Hazan; David Hagedorn; Bon Appetit's former editor-in-chief, Barbara Fairchild; Washington Post dining critic, Tom Seitsema and Post food writer, cookbook author and James Beard judge, David Hagedorn, among many, many more. • Host and producer of Industry Night, a weekly podcast available on YouTube and iTunes that takes listeners and guests on scintillating, deep dives into subjects impacting the worlds of food, wines, spirits and brews, from sexual harassment in professional kitchens and start-up entrepreneurship to the real facts behind sustainable seafood, how iconic restaurateurs do their thing, organic farming breakthroughs and … more. • Founder and publisher of TheListAreYouOnIt.com (The List), one of America’s first websites of its kind. Hailed by The Washington Post as, "one of the premier resources for all things food and wine in DC and beyond", The List has presented aggregated and always-updated details for everything of interest happening across the region's food, wine, and more scenes since 2004. • A featured, weekly presenter on WTOP 103.5 FM, the DC area’s top radio station • A local, social media leader and influencers. Including her subscribers to The List, Nycci reaches more than 350,000 with a people Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. • A frequent guest on local broadcast and cable TV, presenting “What’s happening” updates across the dining out scene and more. And when top chefs come to town, they come to Nycci to be interviewed. Click the links below to see her interviews with Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Wolfgang Puck: o Wolfgang Puck - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0MbJFml20 o Michael Mina -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUXwYxD1kro o Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert - http://youtu.be/9_KZ60r5oF0 • A respected business and social media consultant to restaurants (Nobu, DC; Aramark, Todd and Ellen Gray’s Equinox); dining out-related mobile apps (Blue Cart), and farmers’ markets and seafood distributors (Fresh Farm Markets, Congressional Seafood). Additionally, Nycci serves as consultant to the Wine & Food Festival annually held at National Harbor, Md., where she curates and emcees the live chef demos for the more than 14,000 attendees at the two-day event with such local, celebrity chefs as Rock Harper (a Hell’s Kitchen alum); Bryan Voltaggio (Volt, Range, Family Meal); Scott Drewno (The Source by Wolfgang Puck); Victor Albisu (Del Campo; Taco Bamba) and Danny Lee (Mandu, Chi-Ko), among many others. • Former brand ambassador for companies you know, such as Celebrity Cruises and for Gloria Ferrar Wines (Sonoma, CA). • A close colleague and supporter of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) and a founding committee member and past chair of the Human Rights Campaign’s annual, Chefs for Equality event, now the HRC’s single-most successful fundraiser in the Washington, DC region. • A frequent emcee and judge for local, food/wine/spirits/brews-related events, from celebrity chef competitions to nonprofits’ galas. Want to chat? Nycci can be reached at nycci@TheListAreYouOnIt.com or at 301-213-8992.
Food And Dining , Washington DC Area
I rarely cover political stories.
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The List Are You On It