Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
When covid hit in 2020, I turned my for profit cafe into a 501c3 and everybody ate for free. $25,000 would help me serve my community again.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Ralph Smerling who was a White House Chef back in the 1970s .
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use the $25000 towards help feed those are struggling with having too much month left at the end of the money.
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