Winner will be featured on the cover of Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000!
Cooking is art, skilled craft & love combined. I can express myself, evoke memories & care for others thru my creations & people taste that.
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Receive Text UpdatesJulia Child; beautiful produce; the desire to experience different cuisines and cultures through food; & wanting to continually challenge myself with learning new techniques & skills. Also, I have a passion for cooking like nothing else. It is endlessly fascinating to me. If I can't get to a 5-star restaurant, I want to learn how to recreate their dishes myself! Finally, it makes me so happy when people enjoy what I feed them.
What's your all time favorite dish to make?So hard! There is a Slavic dish that is a yeasted cabbage and bacon pie. It's so delicious! And I love making other savory pastries and sweet pies and cream pies! Hmm. I think my answer is...pie. But geez, I love a great Boeuf Bourguignon, too!
What would you do with the $25,000?I would open a pastry shop/Pâtisserie or tea room where people can eat sweets and savories in the European tradition. I want to create a place where people can slow down, savor, and treat themselves to something made from the highest-quality ingredients. Basically, I want to inject a little love and daily indulgence into people's lives.
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