Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
To be recognized as a cultural Cook , to know that I've been living in my Truth my whole life,and my Daughter will be proud of me .
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Jamie McAfee,Jay and Jennifer McAfee, My Mother and Father(Both Deceased)
What would you do with the $25,000?Fix my house, and try and open a restaurant for my Daughter,so she teach her , children and grandchildren the recipes My mother , grandmother taught Me!
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