Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m from New Jersey but live in Miami and I have learned to blend the jersey flavor and style with the Miami flavor and style and I call it
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Who is your culinary inspiration?The people who love great tasting food
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay off my house
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