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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Chef Douglas Katz shares his recipe for butter roasted shrimp at Zhug.
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Local employers desperately looking to hire are competing, not only with each other for staff, but also with one particular candidate magnet: Amazon.
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Martha on the Fly serves up scratch made breakfast sandwiches and cinnamon rolls every weekend.
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Cleveland Cooks visits Twisted Taino, a Caribbean and Latino restaurant in Parma.
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Here’s how some Ohioans are taking advantage of the job market and how businesses are being affected
Staffing agencies say the competition for employees is raising pay rates but is also disrupting business operations and will cost consumers more.
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Brooke Hill, from Quarry Hill Orchards, shared her family recipe for German Apple Cake.
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Nighttown, a restaurant and music venue in Cleveland Heights, will now be operated by the team behind Red The Steakhouse. They will renovate the infrastructure and operate it as Nighttown again, next year.
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Chef Victor Morenz shares his recipe for Clambake Choucroute.
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Cleveland Cooks travels to Gunselman's Tavern in Fairview Park to prepare their brat burger, one of the items they'll be serving at this year's Oktoberfest at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.
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The former executive chef at Progressive Field took his culinary team that was furloughed during the beginning of the pandemic, and started Go Buddha Eatery in Rocky River.
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The Beachland is part of about a dozen Cleveland-area venues banding together to require vaccinations to attend shows.
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A starting running back for Bishop Sycamore, and his mother, speak about the school that is being called in to question.
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Cleveland Cooks made a gluten free version of the trending Nashville Hot Chicken sandwich.
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University Hospitals Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine & Global Health is conducting a trial for Pfizer's booster shot.
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Six Shooter Coffee in the Waterloo neighborhood shared their recipe for Cafe de Olla.
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Parents are paying as much as 20% more for school supplies, and many items are harder to come by due to shipping delays.
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Go Buddha vegan/vegetarian restaurant demonstrates how to turn watermelon in to a mock poke.
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Cleveland's first virtual food hall, Keep the Change Kitchen Collective, offers four different restaurant concepts all operating out of one central kitchen, for delivery and takeout.
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Perfectly Imperfect Produce is using their rescued fruits and vegetables in a new meal kit line meant for families returning to the workplace.
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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.