Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Would love to have my own restaurant one day. I have been turning and burning for 37 years, time to get that restaurant.
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Receive Text UpdatesMy favorite dish is wild beet salad with a balsamic reduction and local goat cheese.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My inspiration would have to be Mr Hughes a chef in Reno Nv that taught me a lot that I know now 37 years ago.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would put it into my fund that I have been saving to open my new restaurant.
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