Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Carol Jones

I live, eat, sleep, and breathe cooking all day everyday! If I'm not creating food I'm lost. Carla Hall to me is an icon period!

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

My mother who is no longer with me. She was the best cook I ever knew. When we were kids she would drag us into the kitchen to watch her cook, which I hated then. I'm so thankful for that now.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

African Soup the way she used to make it. I've never had it everywhere in the world the way she was taught. It still brings back memories and tears thinking about it.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would reinvest it into my juke joint to open a second larger location. I know that my Mama is with me and guiding me on this journey. She was and still is the strongest woman I ever knew. Even to this day. I want to make her proud of me.

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