Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook. I cook 7 days a week for my partner of 15 years. He is vegan, I am not.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Tabitha Brown.
What would you do with the $25,000?Start a vegetable garden.
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