Renan Anastacio

Cooking has always been how we connected in my Filipino culture. I want to share that connection to everyone.

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

I'd say my family as well as my curiosity. Growing up, my grandmother and aunts would would cook and feed people in our neighborhood. It just seemed natural.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

Never have gone to a culinary institute, I line cooked in an Italian restaurant as a teen and learned how to make chicken marsala. I immediately made the dish to my mom to show her what I had learned.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would like to maybe someday start my own food business. Food hospitality has always been in my history. Why not the future also?

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