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