Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
From home to a kitchen genius to contest stage, I turn grandma’s recipes into haute cuisine passion, flavor, grit.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Bobby Flay
What would you do with the $25,000?Open a restaurant
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