Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Being inspired watching all the chef's on television perform their favorite foods has always been a place I need to be
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Bobby Flay
What would you do with the $25,000?Take my husband on a needed vacation
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