Aliza Gans

Gourmet gift guide. If you know someone who’s doing a little more eating and drinking at home than usual these days (so… most people?!), a present for their kitchen or bar can help elevate the mundane.

Position: Senior Editor & Culinary Producer
Content: Video. NYC. 2017-2018
Cooked swaps, coordinated chefs and crew for filming, sourced ingredients, for recipe app purchase and rebranded as the Food Network Kitchen App. Also interviewed chefs and wrote bios. Videos awarded James Beard and IACP awards for Best Instructional Video, 2018.

Title: The Power of Sleep, Huffington Post

Position: Writer, Greencard Productions

Content: Video, 7 5-minute episodes. NYC. 2017-2018

Wrote script and developed visuals for an animated branded series, “The Power of Sleep,” in partnership with Sleep Number.

Title: Rachael Ray Every Day, published under Meredith Corporation
Position: Associate Food Editor
Content: 8 issues, print magazine. NYC. 2019
Editor of three columns (7 pages front-of-book, 4 back-of-book):
Test Kitchen (techniques, tools, ingredients, cookbook reviews)
Shop Talk (shopping trends, product reviews)
Dinner, Done! (quick, easy recipes)
Wrote, assigned, and edited articles; worked with art department to create visuals and layout.

Taste tests, gift guides, product reviews, and more food and lifestyle articles.

Title: Aerate (a new gardening publication for Millennials)

Position: Senior Associate Editor

Content: Selected articles, 2021: Gardening Naked | Home-Grown Mushrooms Are the Easy Indulgence You’ve Been Missing

Title: Project Aarambh
Position: Writer, director, producer
Content: Video. 15 minutes. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 2014
Video documenting the impact of Project Aarambh on HIV/AIDS prevention among migrant rickshaw pullers in Varanasi, India. Created on a summer fellowship/grant from Brandeis University.