Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Tony nguyen

I’ve never done anything like this before. I mostly been in the military for years before discovering my passion in food

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

My best friend, Javier. He was making home cook meals for us one day when I was sleeping over. We both were 17-18 at the time and it sparked something inside of me to make—-create mouth watering and savory dishes

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

I love making Cajun style shrimp scampi & Korean Kimchi stew

What would you do with the $25,000?

Invest my time into culinary school and learn more about it. Being a jr sous sushi chef on the west coast, I feel like I could learn and do more with this money.

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