Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I'm Michael Bowers some skidway lake, nobody else cooks with mix, my food in science, strangers love coming to my table like family
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Gordon Ramsay
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay off loan to my house
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