Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I started cooking when I was seven. I am 71. I still love to cook. I love making dishes that nourish the body and make people happy.
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Receive Text UpdatesPotato salad with shrimps is what I’m asked to make every holiday. I fix the turkey for Thanksgiving, always moist and golden. My baked beans is requested for memorial day, July 4th and Labor Day.111
Who is your culinary inspiration?There have been so many. My my mother, grandmother, with Florence Robinson, who was the next-door neighbor in her 80s. Emeril Lagasse,
What would you do with the $25,000?I want to purchase a food truck.
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