Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Cooking saved my life. As a favorite chef, I'dlike to show how much cooking can be a healing mechanism
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother and Aunt Darlene
What would you do with the $25,000?Open my food truck
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