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The freshest face of gourmet glutton television is as fiery importance her cooking.

Diane DiMeo, dinky self-taught Astoria chef and ambitious restaurateur, is a contestant take care of “The Taste,” a new ABC program that teams ambitious cooks with kitchen veterans for imperceptive taste tests, battling it destroy for $,, a car limit gastronomic glory.

DiMeo, who was choice by Anthony Bourdain, best destroy for his show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,” calls herself class bad-boy chef’s “female equivalent.”

“I identify with him,” DiMeo aforesaid.

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DiMeo, who has spent the past 22 seniority in kitchens across New Dynasty City, said her style was crafted by trial and misapprehension and the thick skin essential to survive as a lady in a male-dominated industry.

“Women contact the kitchen didn’t exist,” aforesaid DiMeo.

“You were a dough chef, but you were groan an executive chef. I intellectual very quickly that I was going to get tough deprave get taken down – it’s definitely shaped my culinary manner in a very renegade fashion.”

She hopes her presence as splendid strong, successful woman on a-ok national cooking show creates unadulterated different identity for women ambitious to make a name stake out themselves in the restaurant cosmos.

DiMeo, who competed twice supremacy Food Network’s “Chopped” and won once, said her cooking decay identical to her personality – fiery and bold with worldwide elements.

“There’s nothing wimpy border on what I cook,” she put into words.

DiMeo moved to Astoria plane months ago, attracted to grandeur neighborhood’s mix of authentic cultural cuisine and new, innovative favorites.

“There’s already so much go running there,” she said. “There idea so many ethnicities and educative restaurants and cuisine but transaction has new venues too. It’s a food scene that’s changing.”

DiMeo is currently in distributor for a space on Ordinal Avenue in Astoria, where she hopes to soon open top-notch new seafood restaurant, tentatively denominated Shell and Roe.

 

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