Jen Picciano
Reporter
Cleveland, Ohio
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Jen Picciano is an Emmy award-winning reporter for WOIO-TV and creator of the restaurant and dining segment Cleveland Cooks.
She is also the author of the food blog Cheftovers.
Picciano is a native of Cleveland, and has spent the last 10 years with CBS 19 as a general assignment field reporter. She is active in the local food scene and has been involved with the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland for several years.
She resides in Mayfield Heights with her husband and her three children.
You can usually find her with a pencil behind her ear and a mic in her hand, or an apron on.
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Perfectly Imperfect Produce has a new line of meal kits using their rescued produce.
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The Jones Family of Milan, Ohio, has saved their family for a second time, and kept more than 100 people employed
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CMSD Executive Chef Tim Wright uses a Pass the Love with Waffles + Mochi meal kit to prepare a soba noodle salad.
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In the heart of Tremont, there’s a new oasis, Twin Palms, a patio cocktail bar, from the team behind The Spotted Owl.
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Luca Sema, owner of two other Cleveland area restaurants, is opening Acqua di Luca, in the Warehouse District downtown.
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Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute, an organization that helps those formerly incarcerated, has seen a 60 enrollment increase and is now expanding to facilities all over the country with the use of closed circuit tablets.
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When Progressive Field opens back up to full capacity, they’ll have to have the staff to reflect the larger crowd. And the Cleveland Indians aren’t immune to staffing shortages others in the hospitality industry are facing.
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Playhouse Square has their first live performance in 65 weeks, with The Choir of Man opening on Friday.
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The Goodtime III sightseeing cruise ship will run a full schedule, at full capacity starting June 2nd.
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The lively restaurant famous for its quarter-pound hot dogs with creative toppings, over 75 beers on tap, and live music will open its doors on June 25.
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The Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center is doing more hearing evaluations, because people are having a harder time hearing with masks on and social distancing.
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As summer approaches and the state lifts health orders, Northeast Ohioans will be ready to get out and celebrate on the water.
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Restaurant industry leaders say fear of COVID, extended unemployment and workers changing careers is causing industry-wide staffing shortages.
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Visual Graphics in Mentor is printing thousands of Help Wanted signs.
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The Centennial Building is a project renovating a nearly century-old bank building in the heart of downtown. Developers are converting it to affordable housing.
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Avid runners are happy to leave "virtual racing" behind and get back to in-person racing.
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Minority-owned businesses have been selected by the NFL to participate as vendors in the NFL Draft in Cleveland, through the league's Business Connect initiative.
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American Fireworks Company has weathered more than 100 years in the fireworks sales and display business. Interest in their products and services is a good indicator of the summer ahead.
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Women's Tennis and the Senior PGA are bringing spectator sports to Northeast Ohio this summer.
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Cleveland Orchestra’s return to Blossom and new streaming app is music to the ears of its supporters
The Cleveland Orchestra will play an 11 concert series at Blossom Music Center and continue to build their library in the Adella streaming app.
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Memphis Kiddie Park, a nearly 70-year-old family-run business, will re-open after being closed for 18 months due to the pandemic.
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The Thirsty Parrot will open up for Opening Day for the first time in two years.
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Beachclub Pizza Bistro has been in business for 20 years, and survived the pandemic.
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Parma’s Shiloh Middle School students happy and inspired upon returning to in-person special classes
Middle school students and teachers in Parma are pleased to be returning to in person specials classes, where they struggled during remote learning.
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Musicians and music venue operators are eager to get performances back on the schedule, but they will look and feel different.
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VPExam gives cardiologists the technology to listen to patients' hearts and lungs through a bluetooth attachment to a stethoscope.
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Lake Metroparks Farmpark has been closed due to COVID restrictions for several months. They reopened today.
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Funeral home operators and staff are part of the next wavy of Ohioans to be vaccinated.
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Katrina Cox's untreated childhood strep throat lead partly to her heart failure as an adult.
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The Ohio Department of Health is reporting very few cases of flu hospitalizations.
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UH Portage opened the Food for Life Market to address food insecurity and long-term health concerns.
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Parents are concerned over details about heavy metals present in common commercial baby foods.
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Singles in America are embracing video dating in the pandemic, and seeking out partners who share political beliefs.
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Student athletes are losing out on college roster spots and scholarships because seniors are staying an extra year due to COVID.
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College scouts are now recruiting almost exclusively virtually due to COVID.
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University Hospitals is using acoustic shock wave technology to treat diabetic foot ulcers.
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Members of the Africa-American community share their experiences participating in University Hospitals COVID 19 vaccine trial.
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A patient at University Hospitals received a double lung transplant in the spring, ahead of contracting COVID in the fall.
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More than 160 restaurants are getting some much-needed grant money from Cuyahoga County to help them keep the lights on.
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Nighttown owner Brendan Ring is selling the restaurant and several adjacent buildings to investor Rico Pietro.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission offers guidance for parents to make smart purchases of toys, given that many inspectors were not examining products coming in to ports during the COVID pandemic.
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Shortages on lumber, aluminum, textiles and cardboard and causing significant delays for products and an increase in prices.
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Local lab Multi Radiance Medical is applying for emergency use authorization of its super pulsed laser therapy to treat COVID patients.
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Chef Dante Boccuzzi has begun construction on a new sushi restaurant and speakeasy bar.
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Hilarities comedy club is bringing in Jeremy Piven, and others, hoping to survive the COVID downturn.
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Several retailers and organizations are offering socially distant or virtual visits with Santa Claus this year.
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Americans are having a hard time sleeping during the pandemic and their sleep problems are expected to get worse.
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The closures represent the loss of 70 jobs.
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Restaurant owners are installing UV systems in to their HVAC units in hopes of reassuring customers of their safe environment and preventing another shut down.
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Engineers from GE Current have developed a new product to constantly sanitize the air and surfaces through LED powered UV light.