Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
To show my family I can do anything at my age. I’m a dedicated,loving wife, mother and grandmother
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Definitely you. Carla Hall You are true to yourself and are inspiring
What would you do with the $25,000?I would put it towards my husband medical bills. He just suffered a mild stroke and is on doing. The remaining I would get our family together to celebrate family
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