{"id":906643,"date":"2026-09-23T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:44:13","slug":"gander-woman-never-expected-to-hear-back-from-masterchef-canada-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/906643\/","title":{"rendered":"Gander Woman Never Expected to Hear Back from MasterChef Canada Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790171053_824_rebecca-abbott-masterchef-canada.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Gander Woman Never Expected to Hear Back from MasterChef Canada Application\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Abbott (MasterChef Canada\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>MasterChef Canada aired last night and Newfoundland was there bringing traditional flavours to the country-wide contest. <\/p>\n<p>Gander native Rebecca Abbott says she applied for MasterChef Canada on a whim one night around Christmas, and never expected to hear anything back. <\/p>\n<p>Over half a year later she is a contestant and says she can hardly believe it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Abbott says a big inspiration for her love for cooking came from her mom, who she says is also a great cook. <\/p>\n<p>She says she\u2019s loved cooking since she was five and following her mom around the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>Abbott wouldn\u2019t consider herself a typical child when it came to food, because from an early age she had a strong curiosity about it. She would ask questions like \u2018what is that?\u2019, \u2018why are you putting that in there?\u2019, and then eventually that graduated to wanting to make it all herself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn university I struggled with food insecurity, and went to the food bank a lot, and I was really just trying to find ways to make a meal out of nothing \u2013 use my George Foreman grill, a little crockpot, and just figure things out.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Rebecca Abbott (MasterChef Canada\/Facebook) MasterChef Canada aired last night and Newfoundland was there bringing traditional flavours to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-906643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}