Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
The care I put into my food make me who I am right now I take pride in my cooking due to the care As well as seeing a return customer
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Who is your culinary inspiration?I will say my grandmother
What would you do with the $25,000?I will open a foundation that is called Jeneba’s sickle cells foundation to help children who been battling sickle cells around the world
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