Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I been cooking since I was a young girl helping my mom cook and now I feed friends and cook for parties and the homeless
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My Mom
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay my car off
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