Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Just a simple old country man that loves to see people smile from a good meal
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother
What would you do with the $25,000?Take my wife on a cruise
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