Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I would like to continue growing and cook is my passion I always want to move forward and do what I love so much
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Chef Gordon Ramsay and my mother she was is the hospital and I was a kid and I remember cook for my brothers because my mom was in the hospital and on that moment I start loving the kitchen
What would you do with the $25,000?Invest in a house to live and help family also pay my credit cards because is been tough year for me and I want to move and do what I love
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