Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I'm creative and I make mouth watering dishes from scratch.
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Receive Text UpdatesIt would have to be a kangaroo and Emu loin strips that impressed the folks in Perth Australia when I taught bbq'ing classes there.
Who is your culinary inspiration?It would be a tie between Guy Fieri and Gordon Ramsey.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would relaunch my bbq sauce and rub line which I had shut down because of Covid. I was in 48 Whole Foods stores under my Desperado label.
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