Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
My dream since I was about 13 years old has been to open up my own restaurant, bringing the taste of my home up to the PNW.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?In all actuality my mother and grandmother's. They all answered my curious question as a youngster eager to learn what I could in the kitchen.
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay off some bills and hopefully secure either a food truck to spread some food love, or as a securing payment for a ghost kitchen that could eventually get me into a brick and mortar place of my own to fulfill a lifelong of owning my own restaurant.
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