Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because I love cooking and think I'm good at it
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Who is your culinary inspiration?I don't really have any but I like rachel ray
What would you do with the $25,000?Buy me a aid to help me use my dominant hand again I had a stroke but it didn't stop me from cooking
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