Whitney Miller (born June 1, 1988) was a contestant on Season 1 of MasterChef. She is the first MasterChef winner in the American version hosted by Gordon Ramsay, and received the MasterChef trophy, the right to publish her own cookbook, and a check for $250,000.
Whitney Leigh Miller Humphrey (born June 1, 1988) is an American chef who won the first season of the US version of MasterChef in 2010. Miller was named the first ever American MasterChef winner by MasterChef judges, Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, and Joe Bastianich. Poplarville, Mississippi, U.S.
It was Maggie Rimmer, a tutor on Claire's Youth Training Scheme, who pushed her to achieve her dreams and she went on to become the first woman to win MasterChef: The Professionals in 2010.
Shelina Permalloo was winner of MasterChef in 2012.
Season 3: Christine Hà
She's one of the most successful of the "MasterChef" winners, with around 158,000 followers on her Instagram account and a bestselling cookbook, "Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food," which came as the result of a publishing deal she inked as part of her win.
The first season premiered on September 27, 2013, with chefs Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich acting as the judges. The winner of MasterChef Junior season 1 was Alexander Weiss, a thirteen-year-old from New York City.
MasterChef season 3 winner Christine Hà is arguably one of the most successful in the franchise. With over 150k followers on Instagram, the Vietnamese-American MasterChef is the most followed contestant of all time. She was the first blind contestant in the show's history.
Monica Galetti (née Faʻafiti, born August 1975) is a Samoan-born New Zealand chef.
Host of her own TV show, Rachael Ray is probably the world's most famous female chef.
He was a decent cook, but was infamous for serving food from another home cook that wasn't cooked by himself. Despite the understanding that the incident was an accident, he made history for being the first contestant ever to be disqualified from MasterChef, although he took his elimination gracefully.
Personality. Krissi is unarguably the most hated contestant in the history of the show despite her resilience and strong cooking abilities.
While she has never studied cooking, in the nineteen episodes where she competed on the third season of MasterChef, Hà won seven times in both individual and team challenges; additionally, she placed three times in the top three group. However, she was also in the bottom group twice.
Justine Schofield One of the most successful MasterChef alumni, season one's Justine told Woman's Day that the show changed her life "in a massive way". The bubbly blonde now shares her culinary skills with the masses on Everyday Gourmet cooking with fresh produce from Mission Foods, Cadbury and more.
After much deliberation – strewn with numerous superlatives in praise of the two chefs' food – the judges chose to name them joint 2012 MasterChef: The Professionals champions, the first time in the show's history contestants have shared the title.
Goodwin lives with her husband Michael and their three children on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
Elena Reygadas, named world's best female chef, cooks in rhythm with nature. Mexico's biodiversity and bounty of vegetables and ingredients is what makes for the "exceptional flavors," says the acclaimed chef, author and manager of four restaurants.
The Mexican chef Elena Reygadas has just been crowned the best female chef in the world. That's according to the World's 50 Best Restaurants organization, which today announced the chef-owner of Mexico City's Rosetta as its 2023 pick for the award.
A chef is a chef, there is no female word for it. If you do your job well then it doesn't matter. When you work hard in the kitchen, it is not about being one of the boys.
Master Chef Statistics By Gender
33.2% of master chefs are women and 66.8% of master chefs are men.
This supersized format has been franchised all over the world, but the Australian version remains the best by a country mile thanks to two things: its geniality, and the food culture.
Obviously, Julie Goodwin finds herself on the list and rightly so, first. The mum-of-three was the first person to be crowned winner of MasterChef Australia back in 2009. She beat out fellow celebrity chef Poh Ling-Yeow in the finale and went on to host television and radio shows and has written four cookbooks.
In 2013, "MasterChef" judges and producers were accused of sexual, mental, and physical harassment by former contestants. Many accusations came from a blog post by former contestant Marie Porter, where she describes how friends she met on the show were allegedly sexually and physically harassed by judges and producers.
At the age of five, Adam hit his head and the bump which followed persisted instead of healing. He was then diagnosed with a condition called neurofibromatosis type I, which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue.
In 2015 Elizabeth co-founded Pidgin in Hackney, and in 2017 she was awarded her own Michelin star- the only MasterChef contestant to currently hold that title.