Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the favorite chef because I am a fun person, have cooked for 37 years professionally. Still madly in love with cooking.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Mary Sue, Milligan, Susan Feneger Tony Bourdain, Ina Garten, Cindy Pawlcyn
What would you do with the $25,000?I have recently fallen in love with baking and I make sourdough bread and sell it. I would love to have a little bakery very small I think $25,000 would come in very handy.
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