MARCH 2023 THE VOICE
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Celebrating Our Sistahs
Young MasterChef winner is reaching for the stars Show helped Keziah Whittaker overcome anxiety, now she’s changing her career goals with dreams of going into catering and owning a restaurant dish. She added: “I’ve grown so much from it, so I’m just excited to see what’s to come next.” AW STUDENT Keziah She spent a lot of her childWhittaker, 21, says winhood in the kitchen with her ning the BBC’s Young mum, who runs a catering and MasterChef show has food delivery company. Her helped her overcome anxiety, favourite is jerk salmon, but she and reassess her career goals. also loves a roast dinner with Now she’s changing course mac and cheese, rice and peas, and is determined to get into plantain and “the full shabang”. catering with dreams of owning Speaking about how the a restaurant TV show and a food transbrand in formed her supermarpersonally, kets. Keziah Her said: “I fusion found cooking it very impressed daunting judges Popbecause I py O’Toole suffer from and Kerth extreme Gumbs, anxiety with Poppy and I was declaring like ‘it’s that Kenow or ziah creates never; if I “sunshine don’t face on a plate”. my fears She beat now I 21 other never will’, aspiring which chefs to is why I NEW GOALS: scoop the jumped in Keziah Whittaker top prize head-first. has big plans for with her “And the future Caribbean I’m so glad shrimp and that I did coconut because curry soup, I proved to garnished with coriander, myself that I can do stuff I nevlime and chilli, and served in er thought I would do. I feel like coconut shells, followed by Jaa lot of it is mind over matter. maican sea bass with escovitch What scares me is the thought vegetables roasted in jerk and of something going wrong, and beurre balance sauce, washed I worry about things that were down with a coconut mojito. never going to happen. So when Keziah, from north-west Lon- I was on the show all the bad things that I thought were going don, told The Voice that winning the TV show was “surreal”. to happen weren’t happening.” The law and psychology stu“It was just so overwhelming, I kept crying, I couldn’t breathe. dent at Nottingham University said her sole focus will be food I just feel extremely blessed.” Her mum, Tanya, was in tears once she finishes her degree, with a cookbook, her own brand too, and is bursting with pride of sauces and seasonings, and for her daughter. So much so, her own catering business the that she tells people about Keziah winning Young MasterChef first goals. wherever she goes. Self-confessed ‘foodie’ Keziah The whole series of Young MasterChef is available to watch revealed that her granddad taught her how to cook her first now on BBC iPlayer
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