Christine Ha

Christine Ha is the blind cook who won MasterChef season 3 with Gordon Ramsay. Her first cookbook, Recipes from My Home Kitchen, was a New York Times best-seller. Her second cookbook, Cooking From Memory (DK Books), will publish in April 2027. She has spoken about disability advocacy at the United Nations, served as a culinary arts envoy for the American Embassy, and was a judge on MasterChef Vietnam. Ha holds an MFA from the University of Houston and a BBA from The University of Texas at Austin. She received the 2014 Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, a recognition formerly bestowed upon Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. Ha owns two Houston restaurants: The Blind Goat, a modern Vietnamese eatery, and Stuffed Belly, a burger and sandwich shop. The Blind Goat was a James Beard semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant in America, and Ha was a finalist for Best Chef, Texas, and semi-finalist for Outstanding Chef.