A chef from one of Liverpool's best-loved restaurants will take part in Wednesday evening's MasterChef: The Professionals.
The BBC One programme sees 32 ambitious chefs from across the country battle to become the 2022 Champion.
Presiding over the intense competition are judges Anna Haugh, Marcus Wareing and Gregg Wallace. The expert team are eager to discover outstanding new cooking talent and will be setting exacting standards from the moment the kitchen doors open.
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Sous chef Gabriella, who works at Cucina Di Vincenzo in Childwall, will be putting her cooking skills to the test in the latest episode. The restaurant is one of the best-loved in the city, coming in at number 31 of more than thousand listed Liverpool restaurants on Tripadvisor.
Gabriella was born and grew up in Southport, and has lived in Liverpool for the past 10 years. She left school at 16 to go to catering college and worked in London Carriage Works before running a chalet in France for six months. She has had various jobs in Liverpool before ending up in the family business for the past five and a half years.
Gabriella said: "For as long as I can remember, food has been the centre of my life. We were eating my mum’s homemade sugo with pasta as babies. Making sugo with my mum at the age of eight, stirring the sauce, the smell of garlic and onion frying in olive oil reminds me of home.
"And I love that food can do that. I love how you can transform a single ingredient into something incredible that can bring people together who can share the same love!”
MasterChef: The Professionals airs tonight (Wednesday) at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer
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