Justise Mayberry, 11, of Sugar Hill was also among the final four in the final cooking showdown of this culinary competition.
Justise, a sixth-grader at Lanier Middle School in Gwinnett County, also pointed to influences from her family.
“I was surrounded by it with my dad cooking all the time. Him being in the kitchen, that was the center of our house. That’s where we would hang out. I would always hang around him when he cooked, and it just kind of taught me to enjoy that and get used to it, and it’s something I enjoy now,” she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.