Fun-loving and comedic content creator who focuses on food and cooking. Her videos make fun of traditional cooking content and traditional skills, but she also offers up food that is appealing and easy to make, like scallion pancakes or sweet and salty roasted nuts. She sometimes posts non-recipes, like bananas with mayo. Her wildly entertaining cookingwithlynja TikTok account has attracted 10 million fans and garnered 133 million likes. 

Before Fame

She earned her undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then earned a master's degree in business from Columbia University. She joined TikTok on June 5, 2020 and uploaded a video about making a peanut butter, Nutella and banana acai bowl. 

Trivia

On July 24, 2020, she was featured on Vice.com in an article titled, I Want This TikTok Grandma To Teach Me Everything About Food. She received a Streamy Award for Best Editing in 2021. She has been known to use Generation Z slang in her videos for its humorous effect. 

Family Life

She is married and has four grown children, one of whom is a videographer who helped launch her TikTok account. She has grandchildren. 

Associated With

She made gingerbread men with Nick DiGiovanni.

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