Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I am very dedicated chef I kept going to college as I was finishing up my cancer treatments so I could get my second associates degree
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is stuffed shells as it reminds me of my grandma as she was the one that taught me how to make them as I grew up in an Italian family and had Sunday dinner with the whole family after church.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration is Augustus Escoffier cause with out him the culinary world wouldn't be what it is today as he formed structure and discipline, and order
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use the money on a down payment on a restaurant in my town helping to make more jobs and help boost the economy in my town and help it grow
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