What Do Trinidad, MIT, and Food Network Have in Common?

In 2018, she won a Food Network reality show for the second time. Six years before, she won Cupcake Wars; this time she survived Chopped. Yet this was only — ahem — icing on the cake. Before opening a bakery and burning through Food Network, she immigrated from Trinidad, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins. On any given day,