Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Meneka Shontae Bates Stepter

It has been a passion for me I love to cook I always wanted to owe my own food truck and the a restaurant and then I got sick and I couldn’t

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What is your signature dish?

My signature dish is baked pork chop , Redbeans and rice and peachcobbler and ice cream on the side. With corn bread from scratch and good old Sweet tea.

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My mom is my inspiration and my family and my special friend and the love of my life and my best of friends.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I alway want to have my own food truck business and then open up and restaurant one and call my food truck after my mom restaurant The Yellow Hill on Wheels Food Truck

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