Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Johnnie Bruton

My passion is food, love creating easy simple dishes that taste great

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What is your signature dish?

Pork Ossobuco with loaded cauliflower mashed and Swiss Chard with lemon and garlic.

Who is your culinary inspiration?

Chef Herb Wilson, I meet him in Miami, and was inspired , seeing an African American in charge of a restaurant on South Beach, I wanted to learn everything he would teach and shadow one of my favorite Chefs.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Wow, I would fix my mother's house,give to the suicide and crisis, I lost my son last year,so I want to give people help, and open a small restaurant, I would call it cooking with jazz , comedy club, restaurant with line dancing, and the days that where close,I would teach cooking classes for young boys .

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