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

Badia Billingsley

I should be the favorite chef. Because I am blessed by god to create beautiful cuisine that makes you smile.

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What is your signature dish?

Lemon honey pepper chicken, grilled asparagus. Fingerling, potato.

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My culinary inspiration, what is my mother She's the first one to teach me how to cook. We had fun in the kitchen. When I was a little girl and I continue with the skills she taught me long ago. I'm 41 living in the city of cleveland ohio, with all my secret gifts and talents. I'm dealing with homelessness disappointing employment. Where I do all the work with no Reward it's time for me to have my own thing work with many great chefs then went to culinary schools and I have been taught well!

What would you do with the $25,000?

What I would do with twenty five thousand help some other people there may be in need, and also start my own storefront. Small restaurant business in the city of Cleveland Ohio.

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