Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Have been cooking for family and friends for 45 years I think I am a very good cook
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Who is your culinary inspiration?Family and friends
What would you do with the $25,000?Give it to my children get a new smoker lol
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