Maryana Vestic

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Location
Cranston, Rhode Island
School
New York University, Trinity College Dublin, The New School
Expertise
Croatian And Turkish Recipes, Food History, Food Rituals
  • In 2019, she contributed two food memoir articles to Porridge Magazine in the UK, which centered around her Croatian family via goulash and Easter lamb cake.
  • During the pandemic, she and her boyfriend started a sweet and savory bakes business at home in Brooklyn, NY with plans to relaunch in Rhode Island.
  • She used a skull mold to recreate her favorite Cezanne painting "Still Life With Skull" as a carrot cake for her Instagram Halloween food photography.

Experience

Maryana Lucia Vestic is a food writer, food photographer, home cook/baker, and memoirist, with a background in filmmaking, the business and legal side of entertainment, and publishing. She worked as an Editor-at-Large for the lifestyle magazine Harper's Market (back when the internet was still young) and wrote everything from music video scripts to print interviews with former dancers at Studio 54. She loves developing recipes and doing food photography for clients that explore the history of food. Maryana's specialties are baking, pasta, one pot, and comfort food. She mostly pushes the pencil about her Croatian-American experience, immigrant dishes, and unearthing the hidden troves of secret recipes.

Education

Maryana has a bachelor's degree in Film Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, a master's degree in Irish Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin, and a master's degree in Nonfiction Creative Writing from The New School.

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