Ever thought about appearing on “MasterChef?” Here’s what a Greater Cleveland woman went through to get on the show.
Ever thought about appearing on “MasterChef?” Here’s what Jonida Morelli of Shaker Heights went through to get on the show.CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jonida Preka Morelli’s journey has taken her from her native Albania to Cleveland to an appearance on “MasterChef.”
“We have a small Albanian community in Cleveland,” she said. “When it comes to the Midwest it doesn’t get any better than Cleveland.” “My mom was not the greatest cook. I remember sitting down in fourth or fifth grade, and I remembered I did not like what she made. She didn’t have a lot of options. I would get up as long as I ate what I was given, then I could find myself something to make. It became my thing. I would have about five bites of whatever my mom made, then I would go make my own little invention. It was kind of this signal between my dad and I.
“When you have a teenage son who wants to connect with you - he knows I love it – he paused and said, ‘Mom you should do this, you can win it.’ "“If it wasn’t for Matteo reaching out to me to say, ‘Let’s watch a show,’ I never would have tried it.” “My older son and I had applied for the show, thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, let’s do this, it’s cute and funny.’ I didn’t think it was going to happen. But … in the meantime my son has to have surgery. I had to navigate whether I have to go to L.A. and the surgery. He had surgery Dec. 12. I literally had planned his surgery around the time of potentially going to the show. It was a lot.”“It’s really happening. It’s actually kind of surreal.
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