Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Quarter-Finalist

Gracie Townsend

I love to cook! I was the head cook for the university of Georgia on Sapelo Island for years, I cooked for many other groups

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What is your signature dish?

I love to cook with shrimp, local crab, love to grill anything. My signature is probably devil crab and pineapple upside down cake!

Who is your culinary inspiration?

I watch all the cooking shows. I am a home South Georgia cook! I’ve had no one say a bad thing to say and nobody died❤️❤️❤️

What would you do with the $25,000?

I’d love to have a breakfast lunch cafe! I think I could rock it?!!

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