Nicholas Channing DiGiovanni (born May 19, 1996) is an American cook and Internet personality who has set multiple food-related Guinness world records. Nick DiGiovanni was born on May 19, 1996, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Christopher DiGiovanni, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Susan "Sudie" (née Naimi), a teacher, both graduates of Dartmouth College. He became interested in cooking at a young age by watching his grandmother and great-grandmother cook meals for the family. After graduating from Milton Academy in 2015, DiGiovanni attended Harvard University. While at Harvard, he lived in Quincy House. He graduated from Harvard in 2019 with a self-designed concentration in "Food and Climate". During his senior year of college, DiGiovanni attended a casting call for season 10 of MasterChef.[8] He was selected to compete on the show and finished in third place overall.[8] To film the show, DiGiovanni reportedly left in the middle of the semester at Harvard without informing his professors. He returned the next season as a mentor for finalists. After completing MasterChef and graduating from Harvard, DiGiovanni began to post cooking videos on YouTube. In 2021, DiGiovanni was included in the Rhode Island 30 Under 30 list for Food and Drink.[13] The same year, DiGiovanni won YouTube's Streamy Award for Food, an award recognizing the world's top food creator of the year. Additionally, in 2021, DiGiovanni participated in the #TeamSeas campaign founded by YouTuber MrBeast, which raised $30 million to clean up 30 million pounds (14 million kilograms) of trash in the ocean. In 2022, he partnered with Chipotle to donate 20,000,000 pounds (9,100,000 kg) of food. He was a Webby Award recipient in 2022. In 2023, DiGiovanni authored & published the cookbook, Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook. Some recipes from the book include yolky gnocchi & Smoky Mezcal Rigatoni; its foreword was written by Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay. In 2024, he returned as a guest judge and mentor on the fourteenth season of MasterChef.[21] In July 2025, DiGiovanni became an official brand partner of Feastables, a chocolate brand created by MrBeast. In July 2025, DiGiovanni was included in Time magazine's inaugural “TIME100 Creators” list – the publication's roster of the 100 most influential digital voices – featuring in the “Titans” category for his culinary-focused YouTube and TikTok content. In November of the same year, DiGiovanni guest starred in the film, Zootopia 2, as the character Bartender Slick Di'Giguani.