Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Renee Esposito

I love to cook I have been cooking since I was 15 and I am 61

Currently 24

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What is your signature dish?

I am have many I make an amazing rigatoni broccoli delicious also I make a chicken franchise that's off the chart off the chart and then I make a special dish that I feel like I created it's called reverse chicken where I add breadcrumb then egg then fry and lemon and chicken broth to finish it off what a delicious dish I make classic Italian risotto I can make anything Italian I can make anything anything but Italian is my specialty

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My Heritage growing up in Brooklyn New York going to a lot of people's houses eating scene and eating what they make my grandparents yeah that's pretty much it

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would just pay bills that's pretty much it it's not about the money it's about the love of cooking

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