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