Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I cook with passion and creativity respecting my Sicilian American family’s cooking yet at the same time adding my own twists.
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Receive Text UpdatesIn reality two: 1 My Stuffed Shells w/ pork & beef ground, ricotta, spinach, in a light bolognese sauce. 2. Any one of my Italian soups.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My great Aunts and Grandmother in Niagara Falls, NY
What would you do with the $25,000?Invest in some media equipment to help improve my cooking reels to take me from almost 300,000 followers to try to reach a combined million followers on instagram, tik tok and facebook. My Cooking Reels have been highlighted in New York Italian, Authentic Italian, Only in Broward, Only in Dade pages on IG and Growing Up Italian and over 100 cooking groups on Facebook.
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