Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love cooking for people, I love putting smiles on people's faces when they eat. I enjoy trying new things and creating new plates of
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother, she let me help cook small things here and there, but she’s the one who I saw on make everyone happy with her food make everyone smile at the table just generally happy to be around each other. I wanna do that too.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would invest 5,000 of it and spend the rest on starting my bakery business and then my restaurant, My bakery would be the first one it would start at local festival the next year after getting my name out there I would rant a place then in a few years find a place to start my restaurant
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