Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I should be the favorite chef because with everythin that I cook I cook with my mom wit me mentally an n my soul and heart and with love
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Receive Text UpdatesI really don't have one I cook wit live an feeling's when I'm cookin my taste is wide an open
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mom and Big Momma
What would you do with the $25,000?Help my daughter her lil girl an her mom along wit my son
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