Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Learning to cook after my mother lost her sense of smell and taste in high school has always been something important to me.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My Mom and Grandma
What would you do with the $25,000?Open a restaurant in my hometown of Lockport NY
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