Christine Ha

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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Restaurant Openings

WATCH: Joe Bastianich Is Helping Masterchef Winner Christine Ha Open Her Own Restaurant

by Tina Nguyen 9:37 am, May 24th

But after Ha’s odds-defying win, Bastianich’s growing respect for her has culminated in a de facto partnership. The pair revealed on Houston’s Fox 26 that Bastianich would help Ha open an actual, brick-and-mortar restaurant.
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WATCH: Christine Ha Promotes Masterchef 4, Joe Bastianich Gets Relentlessly Hit On

by Tina Nguyen 3:15 pm, May 21st

Ha’s inspirational story and new cookbook weren’t enough to distract all the ladies (and dudes!) in the audience from the chance to shamelessly hitt on Bastianich.
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TV

Blind Contestant Wins MasterChef

by Mariella Mosthof 12:18 pm, September 11th

Of course, to MasterChef fans, she’s known simply as Christine Ha, because, as those of us who have been watching all season know, her visual impairment has basically been a non-issue in her cooking since that episode where she had to cook a live crab and got pinched.
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Interviews

MasterChef Finalists Talk Behind The Scenes Cooking Classes And Tonight’s Final Challenge

by Mariella Mosthof 11:05 am, September 10th

We got the chance to sit in on a round table interview with MasterChef finalists Josh Marks and Christine Ha recently, and they dished on everything from what cooking help the home cooks really get behind the scenes, to how the judges treated them, to their most feared mystery box challenge, and, of course, how Christine’s blindness defined this season’s competition.
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WATCH: Blind Cheftestant Bakes Perfect Apple Pie With Zero Pastry Experience

by Mariella Mosthof 11:11 am, June 19th

Baking is not cooking. In baking there is no tasting, no guessing, no spicing up, no playing down, no adjusting. Only a recipe, precisely measured out, the success of which is unknown until you bite into your confection. So it’s kind of mind-blowing that MasterChef‘s first blind contestant Christine Ha pulled off a pristine apple pie without so much as being able to tell the color of her crust as it baked.
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