Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’d be interested in becoming favorite chef and use the $25k to fund my culinary education and learn more about the kitchen
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is lasagna allá ragú, I make it in a very special way, instead of traditional beef and Italian sausage I use pancetta and beef 70-30, and use the pancetta fat for the bechemel. Using cherry wine aged in oak
Who is your culinary inspiration?My father, he’s taught me to cook since I was 3 he’s been my biggest inspiration and my most important support, teaching me even now! And I want to follow his dream of a restaurant and open my own and continue his journey, he gave me the tools and knowledge and now I have to apply it
What would you do with the $25,000?I would honestly use the money to commit to my culinary arts education and if I have any leftover use it as a capital to invest into an actual restaurant or even a down payment on that. While following my fathers footsteps
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