Leah
Eliminated, Week 12
Age: 27
Hometown: Scarsdale, N.Y. She currently resides in New York.
Profession: Sous chef, Centro Vinoteca
Culinary education: AOS/BA, CIA
Favorite simple summer recipe: Ricotta-stuffed zucchini
blossoms and panzanella salad
Final elimination
challenge dish: Slow-poached eggs benedict
with bacon and hollandaise sauce on challah toast with salad of mixed greens
Leah currently works as a sous chef at Centro Vinoteca in New York. Apart
from the year and a half that she worked at a Michelin-starred restaurant in
Italy, she has spent her entire life in New York and comes from a Filipino,
Russian-Romanian Jewish background. Her favorite chef is Marco Pierre White, and
she counts salt, olive oil, butter, garlic and any pork product as her must-have
ingredients. She loves Italian, Filipino and Thai cuisine, but homemade pasta is
what she enjoys making the most.
(Bravo)
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