Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because I am good at cooking awesome Turkish foods
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Anatolia
What would you do with the $25,000?I want to open my own Kebab restaurant in Castlegar.
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