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About Mel

Born in Curitiba, Brazilian at heart, American by choice.

Mel Biscotto.
Mel Biscotto
01 · Who is Mel

From Curitiba to Massachusetts, Le Cordon Bleu-trained, sharing what I love & what I've tested.

I left Curitiba in my twenties. Nearly two decades in Boston later — a Le Cordon Bleu diploma, a monthly column in O Globo, years as founder of Mel Shopper, and before all that, a fashion and lifestyle reporter in Brazil.

At melbiscotto.com you'll find what fits into real life — practical recipes, forty-minute workouts, Trader Joe's finds, travel outfits, and the honest chronicle of returning to Brazil.

Before melbiscotto.com, I founded Mel Shopper — a pioneering personal shopping and baby registry service for Brazilian families buying in the US, covered by PEGN, O Globo, Forbes and Você S/A.

"Your Brazilian friend living in the US
who tells you everything — no filter."
Mel Biscotto.
From the column · O Globo · May/26
"At forty-two, I discovered that rushing is style's worst enemy. Everything worth having takes time — including becoming your own best friend."
— Mel Biscotto, "On moving forward at forty"

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