SURREY - You could be seeing a lot more of David Jorge, a local contractor, husband and father of two, in the coming months.
Jorge, who runs Surrey's Avante Concrete, landed a spot on CTV's MasterChef Canada competing with the top 50 home cooks across the country. The show, in its second season, airs this February."Cooking and eating out is basically my hobby, besides work and family. That's what I do for fun, is cook. I was always a real cooking competition fanatic or nerd, I've always watched those types of shows and thought maybe I could do something like that," Jorge told the Now.Jorge was urged by his wife and sister-in-law to put together an audition tape last June "and it worked," he said. He was one of six contestants from B.C. to make it into the top 50.To impress the panel of chefs, Jorge said he did a lot to represent his food tastes and the west coast."For the white apron casting, we could actually create our own dish so I... made a Dungeness crab potato salad and a miso sablefish, which is Japanese (inspired) and west coast," he described.If you're wondering whether that dish got the panel to bite, you'll just have to watch the show to find out. If Jorge does earn the MasterChef title and win $100,000, he said he has an idea of what to do with the cash."Long term, my food dream was always to open up a restaurant. I'm very passionate about what I do at work... I love what I do at Avante, but I want to prove myself as a good home cook. If I were to win the title, I would want to use the title and, of course, the funds to potentially start a restaurant one day. If it were to happen, it would be in Surrey," he said.Jorge can be followed at his website Concretecook.com, or on Twitter and Instagram at @concrete_cook.Season 2 of MasterChef Canada premieres Sunday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CTV.kalexandra@thenownewspaper.com