Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
To prove my culinary teacher wrong. You do not need to attend culinary school to work or own a restaurant.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My great grandma inspired me to cooked. Taught me only one dish that only my mother and grandma know his to cook. No one else knows his to recreate recipe like hers
What would you do with the $25,000?Invest stock market, small mobile trailer kitchen, small organic farm
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