Growing up in a large Italian family in New York, Normajean first learned about cooking from spending hours in the kitchen with her mom. Her passion for food continued as she pursued a degree in Hotel Restaurant Management/Food Nutrition, along with a degree in Home Economics. After traveling and eating in Europe for three months then taking a course at the famous French cooking school, La Varenne with Anne Willan in Paris, she landed her first job at Good Housekeeping magazine in NYC as an Assistant Food Editor. There she nurtured her love of cooking and learned many things, including professional recipe development, editing, food styling and copy preparation.

Hungry for more versatility, she formed a consulting partnership with a friend and worked for all of the major national food magazines, many public relations firms, advertising agencies and food corporations. She assisted many celebrity chefs in cooking classes and demonstrations, including Wolfgang Puck, Lidia Bastianich, Giuliano Bugialli and Michel Gerard. Her day-to-day menu of work included everything from recipe development, to food styling, recipe testing, new product development and cookbook projects. She also appeared on or supported various national television programs, including The Morning Show, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, Good Day New York, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and Food Network TV. She was also a consultant to Brain Reserve Marketing Research Firm with Faith Popcorn

Normajean is currently working at Unilever as a Senior Culinary Professional in the Unilever Test Kitchen, where she works on several brands, including Best Foods®. As part of the Kitchens team, Normajean's passion brings a plethora of culinary expertise and real life insights to all projects and plays a leading role in the development of a vitality-oriented food culture within the company. As a food professional and a busy mom of three boys, she provides day-to-day expertise on everyday cooking experiences and behavior, and works to develop delicious user-friendly recipes that fit today's hectic lifestyle!