Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I've loved to cook since I was a very young boy. In 1998 I finally started living my dream owning a restaurant in Daytona Beach Florida.
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Receive Text UpdatesThai Salmon in lemon grass, with a cucumber and pepper salad, death by bacon, bacon burger topped with my award winning fried green tomatoes, and a bacon wrapped brown sugar and ginger glazed scallops. Wine less and cream less shrimp scampi with angel hair padta.
Who is your culinary inspiration?Many, as a kid when my friends we're watching Saturday morning cartoons, I was watching the Galloping Gourmet, Julia Childs, Justin Wilson. I've just always loved to cook.
What would you do with the $25,000?We are in the process of opening a tiki bar and restaurant in Florida, I want to do some kind of faith based outreach, the money would go a long way with that.
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