Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook - create dishes and share with family and friends! Food brings people together
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My great aunt and my grandmother
What would you do with the $25,000?I would take my grown children to Italy - small towns and sample the food
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