Michigan Culinary Artist Could Be Nation’s Next ‘favorite Chef’ With Your Help

FLINT, MI — Victoria Eaton knows food.

She useful to bring retired nutritious meals, snacks and sweets that are not only delicious, but bully for you too.

Eaton is nan proprietor of Sweet Peaces wrong of nan Flint Farmers’ Market, and now she is successful a title that could extremity pinch being named “Favorite Chef.”

One culinary creator will return location $25,000, look successful Taste of Home mag and navigator pinch personage cook Carla Hall.

Since 2023, nan Favorite Chef title has been igniting nan culinary world, uniting apical chefs, passionate location cooks and imaginative nutrient artists successful an epic showdown of accomplishment and spirit — each while supporting nan James Beard Foundation.

Qualified Favorite Chef contenders will person nan chance to showcase their skills and impressment our featured personage chefs.

Each master — including Hall, Aarón Sánchez and Andrew Zimmern — will handpick 1 standout talent to triumph a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience.

That’s wherever Eaton needs Michigan’s support.

In nan earliest stages of nan competition, location are waves of online voting elevating chefs done each round.

You tin vote for Eaton successful nan title here.

Get to cognize Victoria Eaton

Eaton has tally Sweet Peaces for much than a decade, but her emotion for cooking didn’t commencement there.

She loves to eat and observe food.

Her travel started backmost erstwhile she was 9 years old, and now Eaton heads a vegan oasis.

Eaton’s grandmother’s blackberry bushes and orchard helped shape her first existent relationship pinch nutrient early on. She credits her grandma pinch being nan first inspiration successful her cooking exploration.

“She fto maine eat and return arsenic overmuch arsenic I could carry, which was a lot,” Eaton said. “Now my endless cravings motivate maine to cook. I spy aliases eat thing great, for illustration a caller Thai curry, past I spell location and ‘veganize’ it. I make it a fabulous summation to my life for a mates of days.”

Her all-time favourite dishes see world soups, stews and curries.

“So galore astonishing spices, herbs and flavors harvester successful these types of foods creating a magical eating acquisition moreover connected a Tuesday afternoon,” Eaton said. “Nutritionally-balanced meals are easy pinch stews aliases curries arsenic you tin blend a batch of goodies, for illustration turmeric , achromatic pepper, clove, ginger and ail successful them that support health.”

And what would Eaton do pinch nan $25,000?

She said jump ecstatically, crying tears of joyousness and show everyone she knows pinch immense gratitude.

Then, erstwhile nan first daze and awe settled, Eaton would acquisition onshore successful hopes of creating ways to support sustainable agriculture.

“(I want to) unfastened an off-grid beverage location pinch a vegan and gluten free bakery surrounded by forest,” she said. “We will turn sunflowers and reddish clover first to amend nan soil, and connection workshops connected composting, earthy building, companion planting, foraging and rewilding.”

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