Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have been cooking since I was 4. My mother’s parents are second generation Italian, so food was and is an enormous part of my life.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandfather
What would you do with the $25,000?Take my family to Italy
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