Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m a home chef and a foster parent. I know how critical a meal is for connection. Cooking is my creative outlet and self care
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Padma Lakshmi, her focus on the history of food and the way that it connects people, seeing food as a celebration and a reflection of our world is so inspiring to me.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use the money to prepare our home to be able to take in more foster children.
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