Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the Favorite Chef because God has given me the gift of spreading love throughout the world with my cooking. I love it
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is beef spinach lasagna.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother (Mozella Cobb) and my mother (Leana Cole)
What would you do with the $25,000?I'm a disabled veteran and I would feed the homeless veteran throughout the United States.
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