Chef, Co-founder
Melanie Chiao
Melanie Chiao is a product designer and recipe developer based in NYC. Born and raised in Taiwan, her love for food started at a young age, when she would always sneak out of bed late at night to join her father in binge watching Taiwanese food shows 非凡美食大探索.
With experience as a designer and chef, Melanie graduated with highest honors at the Institute of Culinary Education with a dual degree in Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management. She also holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Economics & Policy from UC Berkeley.
Melanie started the Dinner Project as a creative outlet to connect people through nourishing food. In her free time, Melanie enjoys discovering hidden restaurants, testing new recipes on her food blog @dine_with_mel, and hosting dinner parties at her apartment.
Designer, Co-founder
Bianca Lin
Bianca Lin is a designer and maker interested in delivering narratives through her drawings and design, ranging from urban planning to object scale. She is also interested in model making, visualization, and detail construction.
Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Bianca now resides in New York City as an architectural designer with the degree of M. Arch from Columbia University GSAPP. She also holds a B. Arch from California College of the Arts and has worked in architecture offices in Taipei, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
Guest Chef
Camilla Fuller
Camilla Fuller is a chef graduate of the Health Supportive Culinary Arts program at the Institute of Culinary Education. Camilla is passionate about using her own lived experience with Celiac Disease to make gluten-free, and allergen-friendly food more exciting for others. She is also interested in the joys of seasonal eating which she believes is an individual’s most powerful way to be a part of positive changes in the food system.
Having lived in Vietnam, Nepal, Thailand, and Taiwan, Camilla is deeply in love with dishes from around Asia and is thrilled that the Dinner Project offers her an opportunity to reconnect with some of the ingredients she has been missing. Now Camilla resides in upstate New York, joining the Blue Hill team at Stone Barns working under chef Dan Barber.