- Birth nameVanessa Dora Lavorato
- Vanessa Lavorato is a co-host and culinary producer on Viceland's premiere cannabis cooking show Bong Appétit where she combines her talent in the kitchen with her knowledge of cannabis. She is the founder of Marigold Sweets, a cannabis confiserie. Since 2010, she has hand-crafted gourmet chocolates in California, while covering the food scene for Paper, Monocle, Time Out, and Resy. She staged in Alice Waters' Rome Sustainable Food Project where she learned to cook regional Italian dishes. She lives in Los Angeles.- 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 Alice Waters' 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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