Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have been cooking since I was 14 years old. My great grandmother showed me how to fry fish at that young age cooking will be my passion
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My great grandmother, my grandmother and my mother they all have a hand and teaching me how to cook soul food
What would you do with the $25,000?I would try to open my own restaurant with my sister. Who just lost her husband and mother within a year. Cooking is a passion for both of us.
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