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

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Elfego Marcos Morales Perez

I wanna bring a special taste to every single person around the world. make my family proud of what I do.

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

Family gardening, cooking for other people all as well to develop new associates on their culinary journey.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

I love cooking a little bit of everything that doesn’t matter what it is I think it’s more about the occasion or what else you have in the fridge.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Make my wife’s dream come true and open her own Chocolatier store and have a little brunch place.

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