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Quick facts for kids Nick DiGiovanni
DiGiovanni in 2024
Born	Nicholas Channing DiGiovanni (1996-05-19) May 19, 1996 (age 29) Barrington, Rhode Island, U.S.
Education	Harvard University
Occupation	Celebrity chef entertainer internet personality
YouTube information
Years active	2019–present
Subscribers	23 million
Total views	15 billion
Subscriber and view counts updated as of January 21, 2025.

Nicholas Channing DiGiovanni (born May 19, 1996) is a famous American celebrity chef and content creator. He shares his cooking videos and tips online, and he's very popular! Nick has over 50 million followers across his social media accounts, where he inspires many people with his amazing food creations.

Early Life and Education

Nick DiGiovanni was born on May 19, 1996, in Barrington, Rhode Island. His parents are Chris and Sudie DiGiovanni. He is the oldest of four brothers. Nick loved food from a very young age. He learned to cook by watching his grandmother and great-grandmother prepare meals for their family. This is how he first discovered his passion for cooking!

Nick went to high school at Milton Academy and finished in 2014. After high school, he went to Harvard University. There, he created his own special study program called "Food and Climate." As part of his studies, he learned from famous chefs like Massimo Bottura and José Andrés. For his final year, Nick studied how much carbon pollution different restaurants around the world produced.

Nick's Amazing Career

Starting with MasterChef and YouTube

While still in college, Nick tried out for MasterChef, a popular cooking TV show. He was chosen to compete and ended up finishing in third place! After MasterChef and graduating from Harvard, Nick started making cooking videos for YouTube. His very first video showed him cooking a dessert he would have made in the MasterChef finale. This video has been watched over 3.7 million times!

Nick now regularly posts videos of himself cooking all sorts of different foods. His main YouTube channel has almost 23 million subscribers as of January 21, 2025. He has worked with big brands like Amazon and Walmart. He also often worked with other online creators, like Lynja, who was also a popular food creator.

Winning Awards and Breaking Records

In 2021, Nick DiGiovanni was named one of the "30 Under 30" top young people in Food and Drink by Forbes magazine for Rhode Island. That same year, he won a Streamy Award for Food. This award recognizes the best food creator in the world!

Nick is also famous for breaking many Guinness World Records for food. Here are some of his amazing achievements:

• In November 2021, he and Lynja made the largest cake pop ever, weighing 97 pounds (about 44 kg)!
• In June 2022, he broke the record for the largest chicken nugget, which weighed 20.96 kg (about 46 pounds).
• In August 2022, he visited the most fast food restaurants in 24 hours, stopping at 69 different places!
• In October 2022, he beat Gordon Ramsay's record for filleting a 10-pound fish the fastest. Nick did it in exactly 1 minute!
• On the same day, he built the world's largest sushi roll, which was 2.15 meters (about 7 feet) wide.
• In November 2022, he and Nigel Ng created the largest fortune cookie, weighing 1.47 kg (about 3.2 pounds).
• They also made the largest donation of turkey in 24 hours, giving away over 64,000 kg (about 7,620 turkeys)!
• On May 11, 2023, Nick, along with Gordon Ramsay, broke the record for the largest Beef Wellington, which weighed 25.76 kg (about 56 pounds). This was his ninth Guinness World Record!

Helping Others and Writing Books

Nick is also a lead ambassador for The Farmlink Project. This group helps rescue extra food and gives it to people who need it. They have provided over 200 million meals! In 2021, Nick also helped with the #TeamSeas campaign, which raised $30 million to clean up 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean.

In June 2023, Nick released his first cookbook called Knife Drop. It quickly became a #1 bestseller on the New York Times list and stayed there for five weeks!

In 2024, he returned to MasterChef as a guest judge and mentor. Nick continues to create exciting food content for his main channels and his recipe channel, Nick's Kitchen.

Awards and Nominations

Television Appearances