Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
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Bacon cheeseburger mac n cheese
Who is your culinary inspiration?Jake Oliver
What would you do with the $25,000?Take my son to universal Mario kart land and move into a better neighborhood
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