Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
As the Favorite Chef. It's a win win situation using my skills and imagination to help promote and enjoy Taste of Home with creative recipes
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is a full blown Thanksgiving dinner complete with turkey, dressing, potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and a few pies to tempt everyone' taste buds. The savory smells and taste of the Thanksgiving dinner full explains why cooking is an art form that appeals to all of the sense
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration was my mother. She had me help her in the kitchen with several meals and other things like canning and preserving as well as baking cookies of all kinds for the holidays. That initial inspiration was elevated by chefs like Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay, with their bolf flavor cooking styles
What would you do with the $25,000?The prize money of $25,000 dollars would be used to pay down debt that some ruthless attorneys managed to give me.
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