Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
To me being a chef is not a profession. It is a calling. A lifelong commitment to creating a good experience for all to enjoy.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?His earliest memories are of being brought into his family’s restaurant in Littleton, Colorado. His grandmother Helen was the first Hispanic woman to open a business there. It was in that restaurant, surrounded by the aroma of simmering pots and the rhythm of a working kitchen, that his path was set. He grew up learning from the matriarchs of his family, women who cooked entirely from instinct. Their recipes were not measured. They were felt. They taught him that food is about soul and cre
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use it to grow my restaurant Chef Hip E’s Cocina Loca
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