Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I dont know, but I’m proud of my self and that’s is enough
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother (mayaya)
What would you do with the $25,000?Start over my ex husband past away last year and I was working for him… I want to writte a book
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