Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’ve been wanting be a Chef all my life and have watched Food Network religiously seeing all the different cuisines coming up with my own
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is a Loded Suckana Bifana A Portuguese pork sandwich with pork cutlets, braised in a piri piri sauce served with a poposeco (Portuguese bread roll) and can be topped with carmelized onions or without with mustard
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration has been my grandmothers. Watching them slave over the stove to cook for the whole family bringing wholesome food to everyone at the table. They inspired me to want to bring that happiness to people through the power of food just like them.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use that $25,000 to open up my Food Truck and start building Portigie Jorge’s to make Portuguese food mainstream like a Mac Donald’s or a Wendy’s bringing Portuguese culture and making known all throughout the world.
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