Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the favorite chef,because I have always strive to put other people's needs before my own I will always put others first.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Chef Gorden Ramsey and Emerald Lagase
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use it to open up a kitchen to to teach kids that don't know how to cook that want to learn how to for free. And feed the homeless veterans
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