Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m a cook who likes to honor my grandmother’s old school recipes
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My Dads Mom Grieda
What would you do with the $25,000?Expand my Daughters closet and get access to to the attic of our 1902 shotgun house that my husband was literally born in
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