Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Yasha Huggins

My passion for cooking led me to start a small catering business. As a single parent of two, this donation helps launch my food truck dream.

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What is your signature dish?

My signature dish would be garlic honey jerk lamb chops yams Mac and cheese and a honey butter cornbread

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My culinary inspiration is my grandmother she would always let me help her cook as a young girl

What would you do with the $25,000?

Get my license to completely be on my own in a commercial kitchen and expand my brand and really be able to feed more of the my community

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