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