Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Quarter-Finalist

Qumeka Petty

My🌸Mother passed from cancer 5/24/14 out of no where! I grew up loving to cook with her! She will always be my favorite Chef! Love u Mother

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What is your signature dish?

Baked macaroni and cheese All my foods are awesome!

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My mother first and her sisters of course🙏🏾mothers Mac was so creamy and my auntys southern country style are the best round💋

What would you do with the $25,000?

Put down on a house for me and my kids! So I can start a garden. Mother always used fresh herbs she grow or picked. And publish my cookbook mother never got to sign🙏🏾

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