Debbie Fuccinelli

**Deborah** "**Debbie" Fuccinelli** is the other main protagonist and the former antagonist of *Talia in the Kitchen.* Even though she wants to succeed with her family's business, Debbie doesn't want her twin brother to know that she and Frenchie have been sabotaging Lola's. She is slightly inconfident in her abilities and tends to overcompensate. Its obvious that she cares very much for her family and will do anything to be an amazing chef like her cousin says she is.

## Information

Pretty and popular, Debbie Fuccinelli is a food snob who thinks her family is restaurant royalty. But she's all technique and no heart, in the kitchen and in life. She's determined to bring Lola's and Talia down and won't stop until she gets her way. Passionate and driven, she's determined to make her family's restaurant a success!

## Personality

Debbie's most well-known trait is her unparalleled ability to cook amazing dishes. She takes great pride in her skill. Because of her proficiency in the fine culinary arts, she has earned the title of the "best teen chef in the world". She has knowledge in all kinds of cuisines, especially French, and can cook them to such a degree that even professional chefs are left feeling incompetent.

Debbie is prominently known for her egocentric and self-serving personality. She believes that everyone is trivial compared to her, so she is always seen looking down on people. Whenever the chance is given, she will exert her disliking for others by ridiculing and humiliating them in many ways.

She is also revealed to be very honorable and hates cheating. This is evident in "Faux Frenchman", when Frenchie revealed that Debbie won her cooking competition against Talia when he stole an ingredient from the latter's dish. Debbie become angered and somewhat mortified that she won the contest by unfair circumstances and even began to question her own belief that she was better than everyone. She apparently does not think that winning is everything. She even fell into a nervous breakdown.

Despite her supposed confidence and egotistic personality, Debbie harbors insecurities about her cooking skills and believes it to be her one and only talent. Because of this, she can get deeply hurt whenever someone comes along and belittles her abilities. She will also try to make others feel worthless compared to her, since she herself feels worthless. However, Debbie eventually learns to quit underestimating herself realizes just how good of a cook she really.

In season 2, Debbie grows more kinder and soft-hearted around Talia and her friends and actually ends up helping Lola's instead of trying to run it out of business. She also becomes more trustworthy and willing aid someone in trouble. Albeit, she still possesses her egotistical nature and still believes herself to be better than everyone. But this time, she is less open about the subject.

## Skills and Abilities

### Cooking

One of the most prominent pieces that make up Debbie's being is her unique and unmatched ability to cook any complicated dish or foreign cuisine with exceptional ease. She was exposed to the world of the culinary arts at young age, where she immediately grasped the idea of and grew to an exceptional chef from there. Debbie is very passionate about cooking and never accepts failure in the kitchen.

* **Cooking -** Debbie's expertise in cooking is equal to that of even world-renowned chefs. Debbie can effortlessly turn even the most run-of-the-mill ingredients into the tastiest and most delectable dishes. There is no dish that Debbie can't cook with her two, bare hands. Even if Debbie were making a normal peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she can make it taste like a drop from heaven.
* **Food Knowledge -** Debbie holds an enormous amount of knowledge about food and anything culinary related. She is able to identify many different types of spices, grains, sauces, drinks, etc. just from taste, touch, or smell. Debbie can use her sense of taste to identify all of the ingrediants in different dishes.
* **Pseudo-Spice Master -** Debbie is not an actual Spice Master, as she cannot use any of the spices that normal Spice Masters use to devote different feelings into people. However, her abilities make any normal Spice Master's look like the cheap imitation. Debbie may not have the standard abilities of a Spice Master, her talent and intuition for food is greatly supeior to that of any Spice Master in history.

## Physical Appearance

Debbie is a very slender and an extremely attractive young girl with unrivaled beauty. She is caucasian and has fair skin with a perfect face and cheek bones. Debbie also has lucious pink lips and slightly pink cheeks. She has straight beautiful blonde hair that goes past her shoulders and is also slightly below her chest. She usually wears her hair down, but has worn it in a bun or a ponytail, mostly when she is cooking. Debbie also has beautiful green eyes.

She has a very huge fashion sense and spends alot of time on her appearance. Debbie constantly keeps a close eye on the latest fashion trends, which is her favorite hobby, second only to cooking Her wardrobe consists of bright and colorful clothing, ranging from red to blue to yellow to white to green. Debbie especially loves to dress up in pink clothing. Her main choice of clothing are dresses, but she also has a thing for sleeveless blouses with skirts.

Debbie signature outfit is a pink dress with detailed pink and white flower designs covering the whole dress. There are also two white wide stripes that are lined horizontally on the lower half of her dress that go all around. Along with it is a peach leather belt with a long gold belt buckle. She also wears a golden bracelet with a large pearl on her right hand. She also has golden dress shoes with a golden bow on them.

Her second signature outfit is also a dress. This time, it is navy blue that also has flower designs. The flowers on her dress consist of white, indigo, pink, green, and peach. Along with it is a rusty-colored leather belt with a silver buckle and matching wristwatch on her left hand. She also has pinkish orange dress shoes with black rims and soles, as well as a black bow.

## Relationships

Despite Debbie's overall rudeness, she has developed many healthy relationships over the course of the series, with her ability to befriend others becoming even more prominent in Season 2.

### Talia Parra

**Former Enemies/Good Friends**
Debbie and Talia have rivalry going on between them. Debbie initially loathes Talia because she works for the Fuccinelli's Restaurant's enemy restaurant, Lola's. Because of this, Debbie will often outright insult Talia. Debbie has sometimes even resorted to manipulating her and the other Lola employees in order to sabotage them. Debbie also believes that Talia is worthless. Debbie believes that she is superior to Talia in every way, while Talia is nothing compared to her.

Debbie also believes that Talia could never match up to her when it comes cooking, so they both try to "out-cook" each other. After their Golden Laddle contest, Debbie begins to acknowledge Talia as talented chef. As the series progresses, they both begin to warm up to each other.

In season 2, Debbie and Talia are able to put aside their differences and respect one another's vast proficiency in the culinary field. Initially, Debbie would always look at Talia with disgust and hated her for trying to compete her [Debbie]. But now, Debbie becomes friends with her and was even willing to give away her golden laddle in "Faux Frenchman".

### Frenchie Fuccinelli

**Cousin**
Frenchie is Debbie's cousin and instructor, teaching her everything that he knows about cooking. They both have been working together to sabotage Lola's. Although they generally get along and are mostly on the same page, Debbie is always annoyed whenever Frenchie pokes fun at her choice of fashion, her cuisine, or her hairstyle. This will often prompt Debbie to retaliate with insults of her own. However, the only reason Frenchie insults Debbie's cooking is because he is afraid that she'll overthrow his spot as head chef. A very notable time of when Debbie was upset with Frenchie was in "Storm and Grubb" when he cheated in a cooking contest so Debbie could win her fourth golden ladle against Talia.

### Tyson Fuccinelli

**Brother**
Tyson is Debbie's twin brother. Debbie is often annoyed by her brother's airheadedness and incompetence, and it is because of this that she deemed the "brains" out of the two. She has often times deceived and maniuplated Tyson in order to keep him from knowing about her sabotaging Lola's. However, Debbie has shown a deep caring for her brother.

## Trivia

* Debbie was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
* Debbie has 3/half golden ladles.
* She is known as the best teen chef in the world.
* She is somewhat fluent in French.
* She Might Be Tone Deaf.

## Appearances

### Season 1A

* "And Spice Makes Nice"
* "Sugar Rush"
* "Don't Cry Over Spilt Tres Leches"
* "It's Raining Spices"
* "A Cat Named Bechamel"
* "Fowl Play"
* "Every Witch Lola's"
* "The Open to End All Opens"
* "Spice-O-Matic"
* "Spice Me Up (Part 1)
* "Spice Me Up (Part 2)
* "The Last Enchilada"
* "Cupcake Wars"
* "The Spoon"
* "Skunk-en Souffle"
* "Prote-Spice"
* "Spice Lesson"
* "Go Bake or Go Home"
* "The Golden Ladle"
* "Hurricane Ophelia"

### Season 1B

* "Storm and Grubb"
* "Key Lime Memories"
* "Poached Grub"
* "Faux Frenchman"
* "Just Desserts"
* "School of Bake"
* "Chef Julie"
* "Oil & Vinegar"
* "Food Meddle Jacket"
* "Food Fighters"
* "Yolo FroYo"
* "Rice to the Occasion"
* "Brothers Grubb"
* "Fish Perfect"
* "Fly Food"
* "Cooking It Cool"
* "Spice Island"

## Gallery

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