Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m young and hungry and bold and ambitious.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Gordon Ramsey and Anthony Bourdain.
What would you do with the $25,000?Open my own restaurant
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