![]() ![]() ![]() After graduating college with an Accounting degree Carla moved to Europe to pursue a modeling career which ultimately led her to discovering her true calling as a chef. From accountant to model to caterer to talk show host, life is a journey, and every wrong turn leads to a right. The result is an irresistible and open-hearted collection of recipes and stories that share love and joy, identity, and memory.įive days a week Carla Hall bursts into your kitchens as the co-host of ABC's talk show "The Chew." Carla has never considered doing anything more than following her heart. With Carla Hall's Soul Food, you can indulge in rich celebration foods, such as deviled eggs, buttermilk biscuits, Carla's famous take on Nashville hot fried chicken, and a decadent coconut cream layer cake.įeaturing 145 original recipes, 120 color photographs, and a whole lotta love, Carla Hall's Soul Food is a wonderful blend of the modern and the traditional-honoring soul food's heritage and personalizing it with Carla's signature fresh style. ![]() Chunky Tomato Soup with Roasted Okra Rounds.Roasted Cauliflower with Raisins and Lemon-Pepper Millet.Caribbean Smothered Chicken with Coconut, Lime, and Chiles.Ghanaian Peanut Beef Stew with Onions and Celery.The results are light, healthy, seasonal dishes with big, satisfying tastes-the mouthwatering soul food everyone will want a taste of. Traditionally a plant-based cuisine, everyday soul food is full of veggie goodness that's just as delicious as cornbread and fried chicken.įrom Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette to Tomato Pie with Garlic Bread Crust, the recipes in Carla Hall's Soul Food deliver her distinctive Southern flavors using farm-fresh ingredients. Carla shows us that soul food is more than barbecue and mac and cheese. In Carla Hall's Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin' look at America's favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul food's history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. with her husband, Matthew Lyons.Beloved TV chef (ABC's Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo's Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin' look at America's favorite comfort cuisine. where she works to bring attention to and connects the experience of moving through the museum with the stories and history that inspires the food in the cafe.Ĭarla lives in D.C. She is also the Culinary Ambassador for Sweet Home Cafe at the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Such organizations include Helen Keller International, an organization that works to improve the lives of those with blindness, and to prevent the causes and consequences of blindness, poor health, and malnutrition. She has two previous cookbooks – Carla’s Comfort Food: Favorite Dishes from Around the World and Cooking with Love: Comfort Food That Hugs You.Ĭarla is very active with a number of charities and not-for-profit organizations that reflect her passion for causes close to her heart. Her latest cookbook, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, will be published on October 23rd. On the literary front, Carla has combined her loves of food, people, and culture to write several cookbooks. area and is an accomplished television personality and author. Today, she is a trained chef who has worked in several professional restaurant kitchens in and around the Washington, D.C. It was during that time, as she traveled (and ate) her way through Europe for a few years, that she truly realized her deep-rooted passion for food could be her career path. When the time came for her to select her career path, she first opted for a business route – she graduated from Howard University’s Business School and worked as an accountant for two years – before deciding to switch gears to work as a runway model. Carla believes food connects us all, and she strives to communicate this through her work, her cooking, and in her daily interactions with others.īorn in Nashville, TN, Carla Hall grew up surrounded by Soul Food. Carla is best known as co-host on ABC’s Emmy award winning, popular lifestyle series “The Chew.” She won over audiences when she competed on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and “Top Chef: All Stars” and shared her philosophy to always cook with love.
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