Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the favorite chef because cooking is my true passion. My food speaks for itself and I am very diverse with many cultures of food
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My signature dish is soul food. Baked mac, collard greens, fried chicken and corn bread
Who is your culinary inspiration?From young my culinary inspiration was my dad. He loved to cook we would watch Chef Emeril Lagasse on the food network and I fell in love with culinary ever since.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would open up one of the first black owned pop up restaurant in Staten Island, NY
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