Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook and run a micro bakery from my house. I am a home cook with a little professional experience as a restaurant manager.
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Receive Text UpdatesI have an award winning chili that took first and second place in the same contest (hot and mild versions). I love making Italian cuisine as well as creative desserts and dishes.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother. Hands down. She worked as a cook for the University of Michigan, and taught me how to cook and bake. When I am cooking or baking, I feel like she is still with me.
What would you do with the $25,000?Put some of it towards my micro bakery, bit also take my wonderful wife on a really nice vacation so I can spoil her like she spoils me.
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