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Hey, Can You Cook?! Winner's Kitchen Makeover

Aired on: January 20, 2009, October 2, 2008

After "Sweet Pete" claimed victory in Rach's "Hey, Can You Cook?!" challenge, we sent him to Paris to study at the acclaimed Le Cordon Bleu® International Culinary Academy in Paris. While he was off learning classic cooking techniques, Kristan Cunningham took over his kitchen for the other part of his prize -- a full kitchen makeover. He gets new appliances and some major changes to the room. KC kid-proofed the area so there's more space for his young boys to walk around and added both a kid-sized bench at their dining table and loads of extra storage space. "I'm overwhelmed," Pete says. "It feels like the cooking space is double the size, the dining space feels bigger, it's unbelievable. The bench for the kids? They love sitting there. We can cook, talk, do whatever and they sit at the table triple the time than they ordinarily would."

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