Masterchef, the 11th edition winner is Tracy

MasterChef Italia has found its triumph: Tracy Eboigbodin, 28 years old of Nigerian origins who lives in Veneto, won the eleventh edition of the cooking show produced by Endemol Shine Italy for Sky.

The proclamation in the last episode of this season, from the voice of Giorgio Locatelli, one of the judges of the program together with Bruno Barbieri and Antonino Cannavacciuolo.

    On the podium, protagonists with her of the final, Carmine Gorrasi, the student revelation of 18 years, and Christian Passeri.

Fourth place Lia Valetti, eliminated at the end of the first episode of the evening in which two three-starred chefs were guests: Enrico Crippa (from the "Piazza Duomo" restaurant in Alba, in the province of Cuneo) and Andreas Caminada (from the "Schloss Schauenstein" restaurant, in Switzerland).

The final on Sky Uno / + 1 and on demand, totaled an average evening of 856 thousand average spectators and 3.7% share, with 1,267,668 contacts.

    At the end of a season that was able to truly travel all over the world thanks to a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous Masterclass, but also thanks to great chefs and guests ready to talk about the international influences in their kitchen, the judges awarded the 28-year-old waitress and the mix between the Nigerian tradition of its origins and its present in Veneto, in Vallese di Oppeano (Verona).

    With the victory, Tracy is awarded 100,000 euros in gold tokens, the opportunity to publish her first recipe book entitled "Soul Kitchen - My recipes to feed the soul" (published by Baldini & Castoldi to be released on March 15) and access to a prestigious advanced training course at ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine.

    Today he prefers Italian cuisine over African cuisine.

    Tracy proposed a menu entitled The embrace, which she described as follows: "The embrace is the fundamental symbol of the union of two different, distant, sometimes remote elements ... In this journey at MasterChef I learned to open myself to what is unknown, to accept without prejudice or fear what surrounds me and to make it part of me and my kitchen in a positive way and, through this menu, I want to translate into four courses how much this applies to me ".