Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Grandma taught me tamales, mole & love. I cook through struggle with heart, dreaming of opening my own catering biz
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandma she taught me since I was little when she passed away I kept her spirit through my cooking
What would you do with the $25,000?I would open a catering business that would finally set my son and me up for a stable life and something I want to pass down to him one day.
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