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

Top 20 Chef

Kirk Hudson

Passion has always been to leave people better off than how I found them. Cooking for crowds allows me to live that purpose.

Currently 4

in their Group

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Voting for the TOP 15 ends Thursday the 18th of June at 7PM PDT

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What is your signature dish?

Cowboy Spaghetti. Stuffed Chicken Breast. Clayton Hudson’s chili cheesy beanie weenies.

Who is your culinary inspiration?

Mom and grandma and wife

What would you do with the $25,000?

I’ve been diagnosed with ALS. I would use money to help pay medical costs

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