Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
My dream is owning a food truck that provides food boxes as well as fresh hot meals for the homeless and needy in more rural areas.
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, country gravy, and either corn or peas with fresh homemade biscuits
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration started with Ms. Julia Childs and Mr. Wolfgang Puck up to Mr. Bam himself Emril Lagasse, Chef Ramsay, Carla of course and everybody else in the food industry
What would you do with the $25,000?Buy a food truck and start a non profit for hot food as well as food boxes for rural areas. There are far too many people going hungry around my rural area and its sad
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