Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have been cooking and watching my grandmother and my mother cooking the kitchen for years I fell in love with it the smells to textures
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Culinary inspiration would be my mother Linda Henderson I washed her cook as a child to a grown man to feed to growing boys to Men
What would you do with the $25,000?put down on the house for me and my daughter
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