Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I cook with love n I cook very well I'm from a southern family n In our home food is love.if I'm picked you won't be mad people
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother she cooked everything from scratch
What would you do with the $25,000?I would use it towards a house for me n my 5 kids 3 of whom I am raising for my Lil cousin who's incarcerated
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