Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Cooking is my life! I work 12 hour shifts and come home and cook with my family. If I could do it again I would be Chef Brookelynn! Luv food
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Anthony Bourdain
What would you do with the $25,000?I would get a food truck and serve the best Creole food in my city! I would also open a soup Kitchen. My passion is to feed people and know body should be hungry.
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