Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
The reason why I should be the favorite chef because I am willing to improve my skills and test my limits. You are what you eat
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My autistic son the reason why is because it been really hard to cook for him days I would go crazy trying to figure out what he would eat so I decided to go to school and learn how to cook things from scratch
What would you do with the $25,000?What I would do with 25,000 is get me a vehicle and move and start all over in a different state so me and my boys will be safe
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