Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Cooking Has been My Escape, Allows me to show my creativity and passion from what my grandmother loved to do as well.
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My signature is BBQ. I’ve loved bbq since I was a child and loved the whole process n experience creating on all bbq pits.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration was my grandmother, her food was always delicious and made family friends and others crave for more !
What would you do with the $25,000?I recently lost my job in health care and would use the money to fund my BBQ Business here in Portland Oregon. I just went through with trying to do catering for local events or sell platters
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