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

Quarter-Finalist

Chef Oliver Hale, Chef O

2x kidney transplant recipient for 41 years. an award-winning chef and past host of an award-winning TV cooking show for 11 years.

Currently 5

in the Quarter-Finals

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What is your signature dish?

A Fruit Lasagna for dessert. Encrusted Whitefish with a Lobster Cream Sauce

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My mother and the guy who help me get prepared for my first TV show, CHEF EMERIL LAGASSE.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would move very close to produce a healthy cooking show to help seniors, diabetics, renal patients and many others to eat healthier and live longer.

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