- Birth nameVanessa Dora Lavorato
- Born in California and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, television host, chocolatier, and food writer Vanessa Lavorato graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in art history and Italian. But the biggest lesson she took from school was that her calling sat at the crossroads of entrepreneurship, food, and cannabis. In 2010, she founded Marigold Sweets, creating a market for edibles that prioritizes flavor and sourcing while maintaining artisanal quality. Lavorato built her business on the strength of her premium product, despite the added challenge of navigating the ever-changing laws governing cannabis edibles. Starting in 2016, Lavorato cohosted and culinarily-produced three seasons of VICE's James Beard Award-nominated cannabis cooking show Bong Appétit. These days, her stoner-at-a-stove cooking show, The Edibles Club, brings together members from around the world to learn to make dishes like Hash Tortellini and Weed Hollandaze. She lives in Los Angeles.
"She's LA's Martha Stewart of weed. Her new cookbook makes edibles more fun and less scary." -Los Angeles Times
- IMDb mini biography by: Vanessa Lavorato
- SpouseRocco Rampino(October 2015 - August 3, 2017) (filed for divorce)
- Linda Evangelista haircut
- In 2010, she founded the upscale gourmet medicinal cannabis chocolatier 'Marigold Sweets'.
- She regularly debates the merits and politics of cannabis legalization, frequently attends Los Angeles City Council meetings, and makes an effort to support female growers in the male-dominated industry some call the 'Bro-hood'.
- She applied for one of the highly coveted internships at the Rome Sustainable Food Project. She got accepted and moved to Rome for three months where she cooked for "prize-winning scholars" at the American Academy in Rome.
- Is fully dedicated to the principals of the Slow Food Movement.
- Graduated from UC Berkeley.
- Have you seen the movie 'Chocolat'? You know how she travels around and every town she's in, she makes chocolate? That's kind of like me.
- You would walk down Telegraph Avenue and see people selling space cakes and different forms of edibles. I had all of this really amazing food and cannabis around me. So I thought, put them together and make cannabis gourmet.
- I can't eat an edible quickly. Chocolate has an amazing shelf life and everyone loves it, so I decided to teach myself how to make candy.
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