Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love food. I love good food. I’m hilarious. I love feeding people good food. I think great ingredients cooked simply are the best dishes.
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Receive Text UpdatesI make a delicious Mac and Cheese for the vegetarian crowd, fantastic pulled pork sandwiches for our carnivore pals but my Chocolate Chip Cookies are real winners!
Who is your culinary inspiration?I love French cooking and grew up watching Julia Child. Love her
What would you do with the $25,000?As a former educator, I would make sure kids were not hungry in schools. If you are hungry you can’t learn. I would use this as seed money for a program that ensured breakfast, lunch and afterschool snacks were available for all hungry students.
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