Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love food I love cooking it takes me back to when my dad was alive we use to have so much fun and I would like to share that joy
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Receive Text UpdatesI can’t say I have one. I’m normally like a go with the flow whatever my kids are asking or if I’m just trying to expand on my skill to try something different but I would say seafood is probably my favorite thing to cook
Who is your culinary inspiration?Our culinary inspiration would be my mom, my dad and Marcus Samuelsson
What would you do with the $25,000?Put it towards helping me obtain my dream of owning a restaurant/food truck
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