Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook and I'm pretty good at it. I love to feed my family and I'm the go to person for recipes
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Carla Hall and Bobby Flay
What would you do with the $25,000?Start a food truck
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