Carla Hall on Her New Cookbook and Fave Soul Foods

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Leslie Goldman,

  AARP Published October 23, 2018


Growing up, Carla Hall’s grandmother always told her, “It is your job to be happy, not to be rich.” So when she graduated from Howard University with a degree in accounting, but soon


realized that being a CPA didn’t feel like the right fit, she left her job, moved to Paris, and became a runway model. (She’s nearly six feet tall.) In Europe, during Sunday meals with


friends, the combination of food, conversation, warmth and the sense of family among friends helped her realize that what she needed to be happy was to make food for others.

“If my


grandmothers came over from Africa, how would they be eating?”


Apparently, that was the right call: After starting a catering business and attending culinary school, where she mastered the basics of French cooking, she landed a spot on Top Chef, and


later, Top Chef: All Stars. Voted Fan Favorite by viewers, who adored her insistence on cooking with love and her infectious “Hootie Hoo!” catchphrase, she quickly catapulted into the


limelight as a cohost of ABC’s Emmy award-winning lifestyle series The Chew. Hall’s third cookbook, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, hits shelves Oct. 23.


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