Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the Favorite Chef because there's never been a better time to bridge the gap between people with food
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Carla Hall is the first woman I saw that resembled the women in my family, she made me realize, I got this! Anthony Bourdain because I learned so much about food culture from him, he made me believe I could include two types of food on one menu.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would begin my life long culinary dream of feeding people the type of food that makes them remember that special memory in their life.
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