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

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Jeff DeLong

My love language is cooking for my friends & family. I’m a reunited adoptee and pull in cooking traditions fromall sides of my family trees.

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What is your signature dish?

Polenta and sausage stuffed pork loin with cherry port wine sauce

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My grandmothers, mothers, with a heavy influence of Vincent Price

What would you do with the $25,000?

Create the kitchen of my dreams. Big enough to cook with, and for friends and family

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