Dara Bunjon, Neighbor

Dara Bunjon has a passion for food - its origins, preparation and consumption. Her culinary endeavors began as a regular cooking personality on WBAL-TV's early news in Baltimore, President of the Epicurean Club of Maryland and Marketing and Public Relations Director for Vanns Spices. You will now find Dara applying her broad range of culinary skills as a food stylist for television chefs/cookbook authors the likes of Steven Raichlen , Sara Moulton, and Nathalie Dupree. Her current business Dara Does It is a multi-faceted consulting firm for the food service industry implementing public relations, social media and marketing activites.

She is also a contributing writer to Foodservice Monthly and Baltimore Post Examiner. In the past she has written for Style Magazine, Mid-Atlantic Restaurant Digest, Urbanite and other sundry publications. Since 2004 she has maintained an award-winning food related blog called Dining Dish. She co-authored her first cookbook Yum! Tasty Recipes from Culinary Greats in association with Studio Spear. And also writes Baltimore restaurant reviews for Gayot.com.

Dara has contributed to the growth of the culinary industry as a board member for the Restaurant Association of Maryland Education Foundation, a mentor to the ProStart culinary team at the Carver Center for the Arts and Technology as well as a member of the national public relations committee for Women Chefs and Restaurateurs.

Consider one the city’s food influencers, you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @daracooks and on Facebook @diningdish and @daradoesit.