Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I would be the perfect favorite chef because my desire is cooking I would not do anything else but cook I want to build my own this life cha
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Chef Ramsey is my number 1 I been watching him since I could remember I love him and his cooking desires
What would you do with the $25,000?I have 3 teenage boys and a lovely wife if 8 years I wanna get my family out the projects and show my boys that it’s so much better things in life but what we see in our lives
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