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Jenny Dell is heading to the kitchen for her next venture

Jenny Dell is hard at work cooking up a new project.

The former NESN sideline reporter and current CBS Sports reporter recently launched a food-focused website with her college friend Tracy Simon titled SIMply DELLicious.

The venture may seem a bit out of left field for Dell, but before she ever considered working in sports, she was well on her way to becoming a chef. When she was 12 and growing up in Connecticut, her parents enrolled her in culinary school, making her the youngest person in her class.

“My mom would drop me off, and the instructor and all the other adults would look at her and say, ‘Wait, you’re leaving?