Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Mari Vilardo

I am a queer, disabled woman who started her own business after a work place accident. I share family pasta recipes with my customers!

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What is your signature dish?

My housemade lemon pasta with Calabrian chili and lemon zest butter and fried capers

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My mother and my godmother, truthfully. They have really shaped the way that I cook

What would you do with the $25,000?

Invest it back into growing my business and into my family!

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