海角社区 Graduate to Compete on New Food Network Series Tonight
August 16, 2022
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BATON ROUGE 鈥� 海角社区 graduate Katie Sample will be featured on Food Network鈥檚 new hit series 鈥淏ig Bad Budget Battle鈥� on Aug. 16.
Katie Sample, @katiescajunkitchen
Sample is a speech pathologist who specializes in autism spectrum disorder and finds that recreating recipes opens the door for conversation beyond her flavor-packed Cajun cuisine.
鈥淩ecipes and cooking offer so many different language opportunities from building any communication whatsoever, sentence structure, social skills, receptive language skills, retelling the steps involved, making predictions, the list could go on,鈥� Sample said. Cooking is also a sensory experience and expands life skills.
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Sample says speech and language is everywhere with everything. Her hobby, cooking, 鈥渉elps friends find their voice鈥� through a fun and motivating activity that can be conducted with anyone.
Sample graduated from the 海角社区 College of Humanities & Social Sciences with a bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees in communication sciences and disorders.
The new Food Network series challenges the creativity and time of three home cooks that use every day affordable ingredients to cook a savory meal. The cooks are challenged to shop for their ingredients on a small cash budget at the famous 鈥淔lavortown Market.鈥� The winner wins one year鈥檚 worth of groceries.
Katie Sample, @katiescajunkitchen
Sample says Louisiana-style Cajun food is her wheelhouse. She often tries to take a healthy spin on classic dishes but says she loves to get 鈥渄ownright cheesy, buttery and delicious sometimes.鈥�
鈥淐ooking is my happy place, I can zone in on the fluidity of building flavors, I absolutely adore cooking for people and I truly love the feeling of having someone like your food and enjoy your company,鈥� she said.
Sample鈥檚 episode titled 鈥淟eftover Lessons鈥� will air August 16th at 9 p.m. CDT and will be available to stream any time after the air date on Discovery+.
Sample shares recipes and cooking tips on her Instagram: