Cooking with Celebrity Chef Cristine Ha

Please join us for:

➢ VIP cocktail reception and meet & greet with Chef Ha

➢ Live-cooking demonstration

➢ Keynote Speech and Q&A session

Introducing, Chef Ha

Christine Ha is the first-ever blind contestant and season 3 winner of the television show “MasterChef”. She defeated over 30,000 home cooks across America to secure the coveted MasterChef title and a cookbook deal. Ha was also a co-host on the Canadian cooking show “Four Senses” and a judge on “MasterChef” Vietnam.

Chef Ha’s first cookbook, "Recipes From My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food", was a New York Times best-seller. She has done several TEDx Talks, spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations, and served as a culinary envoy overseas for the American Embassy as part of cultural diplomacy programs in several different countries.

Chef Ha holds a Master of Fine Arts from the nationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she served as Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast literary journal, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.

Ha received the 2014 Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, a recognition formerly bestowed upon Ray Charles, Patty Duke, and Stevie Wonder among others. Her first restaurant in Houston, The Blind Goat, was named a semi-finalist for 2020 Best New Restaurant in America by the James Beard Foundation. Her second restaurant, Xin Chào, opened in September 2020, and Ha has again been named one of the James Beard Award 2022 finalists for Best Chef, Texas region.

Positive Impact

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Point of Light 2022 - Live Cooking Demonstration

By Lighthouse of Pinellas

Point of Light 2022 - Live Cooking Demonstration

Event to Benefit Lighthouse of Pinellas

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