Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the next favorite chef because food to me is love. I want to one day own my own Mom and pops place. Food brings people together.
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is all my dishes. I treat everything i cooked as if it were the dish. Cooking is love to me, so anything I cook or prepare is my SIGNATURE DISH🥰
Who is your culinary inspiration?My Culinary inspirations are my parents, grandparents, and my aunts and uncles. Julia Styles, The Neeles, Emerald Lagasse, Rodney Scott, etc.
What would you do with the $25,000?With 25,000.00, I can help my children, new home down payment and have money for start up cost for Jannie and John's Soul Food Kitchen
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