Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m an enthusiastic chef who loves to cook and keeps learning from chefs who works with me
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Receive Text Updatesone of the dishes i would name: the crispy gyoza taco filled with wakame guacamole,pork ear & calamari stew finished with black garlic ketchup and fried corn
Who is your culinary inspiration?Nacho Manzano, Spanish chef who i consider my mentor but not forgetting Jamie Oliver, with whom I also had the privilege to work for.
What would you do with the $25,000?I’ll use that money to keep developing my culinary voice and invest in knowledge and research
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