Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
To be the inspiration to young chefs that anything is possible and open a culinary school.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My great uncle Victor Bergeron, original founder of Trader Vic's
What would you do with the $25,000?Open up an official cooking school
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