Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Cooking is in my blood, I got my inspiration from my lunch lady grandmother, who I helped before school at South Street school in Ware, Mass
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Nigella Lawson
What would you do with the $25,000?Give it to Lorraine’s soup kitchen in Chicopee, Massachusetts
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