Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook, food is my life, and I want to win $25,000
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Either my eggplant parmesan or fall of the bone baked ribs and my cheddar apple pie.
Who is your culinary inspiration?Jane’s Barber from “The Urban Peasant” Stephen Yen from “Wok With Yan” and Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright from “Two Fat Ladies” And the Soufflé in “Babar Learns to Cook” were my childhood inspiration! I also love Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi Anthony Bourdain and Matty Matheson
What would you do with the $25,000?I’d pay for my daughter’s University And if there were any left I’d go to Spain for culinary enrichment training.
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