Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’ve been cooking most of my life. I love to cook ,relaxes me even more than that I think I get more out of watching people eat what I make.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmothers, my mother, Emeril “Bam” Lagasse
What would you do with the $25,000?Open a small diner serving comfort foods
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