Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have been cooking since I was 6 years old and would love this experience
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My Mom! She started teaching me how to cook when I was six years old!
What would you do with the $25,000?I would put it away to buy a house
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