Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
My whole soul is invested in healing through food. I have learned so much in my journey and want to give back more
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I have a fascination and adoration with Thai culture and natural sourcing of their spices. I’m going to say Khai Soi from Northern Chiang Mai - or lasagna!
Who is your culinary inspiration?Street Food vendors. They individually bring together a meal from their soul that comes from who they are and where they’ve been. They are wanting to be dynamic, but yet true to who they are in order to survive.
What would you do with the $25,000?Help to publish a cook book, directly related to helping those with metabolic disorders and giving back to Mc Master University who saved my sons life through the healing power of food and and diet.
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