Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Try to create a youth base culinary teaching, being featured on taste of home would be the beginning of a wonderful start to help the youth
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Receive Text UpdatesI am crazy about appetizers. My signature dish is a bruschetta recipe. I’ve been passed down from my lake grandfather who lives in Spain for a number of years.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration is a Michelin star Chef named Donald Young. I had trained with him for nine months throughout that nine months I have learned a number of techniques, especially with the scientific methods introducing to my cooking techniques
What would you do with the $25,000?I would like to help fund my youth program. I teach kids in my neighborhood how to cook the basics culinary skills so that they can choose to further their career if they decide to.
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