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Sandra Lee Emmy-Winning Television Chef; Best-Selling Author; Cancer Survivor
Sandra Lee is an Emmy-winning television chef and best-selling author whose expertise includes home arts, food, crafts, beauty, and product integration. She is also a cancer survivor, and her frank documentary regarding her treatment garnered numerous honors. Lee's ever-popular show on Food Network, "Semi-Homemade Cooking," ran for 15 seasons. t featured recipes using 70 percent store-bought ingredients and 30 percent from scratch. he now has a new show on Netflix called "The Blue Ribbon Baking Championship." Sandra currently hosts a holiday season series on QVC. The New York Times says she is "the queen of making something out of nothing." Lee has created and hosted numerous highly rated television programs streamed and broadcast on Netflix, ABC, NBC, FOX, Roku, Discovery Family, Hallmark, Food Network, and The Cooking Channel. Sandra's portrait hangs in the Washington D.C. Smithsonian Museum for her significant contributions and impact on the television food and culinary industry. When Lee was diagnosed with early-stage cancer in 2015, she decided to document her treatment to educate others publicly; the result was the 2018 documentary "RX: Early Detection, A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee." Her work has been acknowledged with Capitol Hill's Congressional Families Excellence in Cancer Awareness Award and City of Hope's Life Award.