Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have learned from the old world and a lot from the new world and put them together as my mom and dad had taught me
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Chef Ramsay
What would you do with the $25,000?Start my own food truck
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