“It was just amazing.”
“The most important thing, to me, is being a good person,” she says.
“And I guess people saw that in me, which is great.”
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“I’ve had a ton of women just showing support and providing camaraderie.
It’s nice to be able to lift them up and be lifted up by them.
It’s a wonderful thing.”
Still, her bank accounts are looking a lot more full thanks to her win.
“Honestly, I haven’t even hardly thought about the money,” says Clark.
I want them to drive to Dothan and stay and shop at the stores and stay in the hotels.
That’s what drives me.
I want it to help build our town up."
And while Clark believes she will always remain a Dothan girl, she does also dream big.
“I don’t see KBC being my only restaurant,” she says.
“What does that mean?
What does that look like?
I’m not sure, but it’ll play itself out over the next few years.”
“I think that in the past we’ve said, ‘You have to be Michelin star restaurant.’
‘You have to win a James Beard.’
‘You have to make super-fancy foods that you have to plate with tweezers.’
I like elevated food, but there’s also an art to very simple, classic dishes.
That’s what I did all season, and it paid off.
It solidified me as a chef, and that’s something I really appreciate.”
