Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have always loved cooking was in the kitchen with my mother all the time when I was young. I never follow recipe
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Chef Ramsey
What would you do with the $25,000?Go to culinary school and buy a home
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