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The Milford Daily News
FRAMINGHAM – When Ted Allen, the host of the Food Network show Chopped, lifted the lid off a silver cloche to reveal a puff pastry on the chopping block, Saba Wahid felt like time stood still.
The moment she saw that it wasn t the pastry she d made, she realized she had won the title of Chopped Grand Champion and the grand prize of $50,000 on the popular competitive cooking show.
“I was thinking, ‘Holy cow, I won?’ I was still processing it, she said about her May 11 win on national television. She suppressed her excitement as the judges talked to runner-up Jennifer Normant, a chef from Newburyport, about why she lost.