Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I just want a chance to prove to myself that anything is possible
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My aunt Tay Even though I was adopted she showed me that through cooking love is shared
What would you do with the $25,000?I would go back to school I really want too but being a single mom sometimes we have to choose and that’s been a dream of mine for the last six years
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