Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because I love to cook hello to feed a lot of people
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My Late Mother and big brother
What would you do with the $25,000?Move somewhere permanently to live place to call my own
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