Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be your favorite chef because my flavor and influence has been apart of the culinary development Washington DC food scene.
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is a crispy duck confit, braised cipollini onion, pablano pepper cornbread , saute kale w/bbq plum sauce
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration comes from watching my grandpa cook while visiting him In savanna Georgia, also bad pubic school food .
What would you do with the $25,000?If I was to win the 25,0000 I would use to fund and open my own restaurant called good food.
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