Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
It will help my family's seasoning business so we can buy land to garden the ingredients and start a small plant-based food truck.
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This is a very hard question because over the past few years I've changed half of my plates to healthy plant-based. From seafood Gumbo to a garden style Gumbo, or my Borscht Dumplings soup to a raw plant-based soup. I came a long way from growing up on Southern-style soul food and my famous shrimp lasagna that would aways be the best from my past.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother Bennie Mae Brown (Granny). Around the age of five she taught me how to cook. The first plate was breakfast: Grits, Sunnyside up eggs, and bacon. Lunch was chicken fried steak and brown grave from scratch. She had me learning and watch from shows on PBS like Julia Child, Justin Wilson, and Martin Yin. Granny said to have an open mind in the kitchen and cook for the world. She never went to culinary school but was a Chef and owned her restaurant in the late 70's and early 80's.
What would you do with the $25,000?Winning the $25,000 will help us buy land to grow our organic ingredients with a small office/warehouse for our family seasoning business and start a small plant-based food truck on the land next to the garden that will help create more jobs in the community.
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