article_snippet.sent: Simon Wood took home the TV crown .
article_snippet.sent: A single father of four was crowned MasterChef champion last night, fulfilling a dream to become a chef that MasterChef champion has nurtured since MasterChef champion was eight.
article_snippet.sent: It brings to an end the eleventh series of the popular BBC weekly amateur cooking contest.
article_snippet.sent: Simon Wood, a data manager from Oldham in Greater Manchester, served a starter of octopus with chorizo and cannellini beans followed by a main of squab pigeon served two ways with blackberry sauce, watercress puree and carrots.
article_snippet.sent: MasterChef champion finished with a dessert of lemon posset topped with seven garnishes – citrus tutti-frutti, charred grapefruit and orange, a lime tuile, limoncello pistachio crumb, edible flowers, tarragon leaves and a lime air.
article_snippet.sent: After MasterChef champion presented the dishes to the judges, Torode said: 'Do you know why I love you?
article_snippet.sent: Wallace said: 'Simon is brilliant, Simon's an incredible talent.'
article_snippet.sent: After being crowned the winner, Mr Wood said: 'I'm shaking inside, it's so surreal, I can't begin to describe how happy I am.
article_snippet.sent: Thirty years later who would have thought I would have the MasterChef trophy in my hands.'
article_snippet.sent: A former MasterChef semi-finalist .
article_snippet.sent: Kim Woodward reached the semi-final of the 2011 series of MasterChef: The Professionals.