About Shani
Shani Delamor is the “Sensual Cooking Diva”. Her journey started in her grandmother’s Southern California kitchen where she was entrusted with all the secret family recipes. Cooking beside her happily-married grandparents she learned the subtleties of the recipes…and it was there that she first discovered the connection between love and food.
After graduation from UC Boulder, Shani was inspired further by the connection of food and love throughout her travels in Europe where she studied French in Montpellier, France, the mother land of seduction. After her studies, Italy, the country of temptation, was Shani’s next destination, and where she lived for many years learning the language and culinary landscape. Her flair for the exquisite relationship between food and love was solidified here. During this time in Italy, she was also a contestant on La Prova del Cuoco, a popular nationally broadcasted Italian cooking show and co-hosted a segment for Italy’s Gambero Rosso channel.
Back in New York City, her home since the early ’90’s, Shani had a new recipe; she took her foreign education, combined with her cooking experiences and turned it into her own business Appetite for Seduction, where she teaches how to seduce in the kitchen. Over the years, she has taught Appetite for Seduction classes across the nation for Sur La Table, The Learning Annex, Kiki de Montparnasse and the Museum of Sex. Shani has made numerous television appearances in the U.S., Japan and Italy and was featured on the Food Network’s, The Secret Life of Garlic. She also hosted her own video pod cast, entitled the same as her business, Appetite for Seduction. Shani was most recently the only female chef to participate in Puerto Vallarta’s 13th Annual International Gourmet Food Festival.
She currently lives in NYC with her sexy Latin husband, who she seduces daily via her cooking, and strives, through Appetite for Seduction, to inspire others to do the same.