Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
The love of food is in the air we breathe. I often smile and cry when I think of the generation before us that lead us here
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother who did this for love
What would you do with the $25,000?Use it to pay bills and to make a better life for our son
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