Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook. I feel that my cooking helps heal the sou. And 25,000 I’d love to have my own little restaurant and make food for everyone
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My dad
What would you do with the $25,000?I would either open my own pub or I would pay off all my father debt
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