![]() If you like the show, please support them - they help make the podcast possible. ![]() Thank you to our super cool brand partners. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with a friend. At a minimum, it’ll open your eyes in a big way. IT’S FREE ( ) and takes about 7-minutes to complete. Have you discovered your Sparketype yet? Take the Sparketype Assessment™ now. where she brings attention to the history of the food that has inspired the café. That launched her into the world of not just food and restaurants, but media, books, with her latest cookbook, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, and TV, with many appearances all over and a run co-hosting The Chew, and now podcasting with her hit show, Say Yes! with Carla Hall : Ĭarla is also very active with a number of foundations that reflect her passion for causes close to her heart, Like Helen Keller International, and she’s the Culinary Ambassador for Sweet Home Cafe at the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. In fact, she headed into the world of business, building a career in accounting when, in a moment of awakening, she took a hard left turn that took her through runway modeling in Europe, cooking and catering, and eventually onto Bravo’s Top Chef where he amazing, joyful energy and sense of possibility captures the hearts of viewers. She loved eating it, but she had no interest in cooking it. Then the music becomes much more upbeat, as I shift into party mode.Growing up in Nashville, Top Chef star, Carla Hall, was surrounded by soul food, especially dishes cooked by her beloved grandma. But if all the food is done and I’m plating up, that’s another story. “If I have something in the pan, I want to hear it sizzle. “I want something that’s really low-key, because I want to hear the food make sounds,” she says. It’s a far cry from what Hall listens to in the kitchen when she’s cooking. “It will range from bluegrass to country rock and country pop, as well as blues and R&B - some old some new.” “Because it’s a Nashville thing, there has to be country music,” she says. ![]() and New York City, where The Chew is taped - the restaurant will specialize in Nashville hot chicken. Inspired by the cooking of her birthplace - she now divides her time between her home in D.C. Her mind is equally occupied with the upcoming debut of Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen, which is set to open in Brooklyn, New York, in late April. He reminds me of being in London when I was just beginning to get into food.” There’s some music that reminds you of a certain time in your life. On this particular day, she’s prepping to tape a segment with Seal, where they’ll be cooking a blackened shrimp salad. “A lot of these guys spend a lot of time on the road, so they focus a lot on getting good food versus just having crap food from craft services.” “Food and music go hand in hand,” says Hall. Her gig at The Chew has given the Nashville-born chef a chance to hang out and cook with some of her favorite musicians, including Kimberly Schlapman of smooth-singing country quartet Little Big Town, Patti LaBelle, and Gladys Knight. “It’s a way for me to connect with the audience, get out of my head, and loosen myself up,” says Hall, who put together this playlist to create a similar atmosphere. Now, it blares out of the speakers before almost every taping of the show. ![]() A network executive, who was watching the scene unfold, ordered the crew to have a high-energy, Carla-specific playlist created. Whatever it was, it inspired her to run out into the crowd and begin dancing. (She doesn’t remember what, admitting, “I’m the worst when it comes to remembering people or their songs.”) ![]() Luckily for her, the DJ who was keeping the crowd entertained played something that struck a chord. “I was so nervous on the first day,” she says. After all, she had been a finalist on Top Chef in 2008 and the fan favorite a few years later Top Chef: All-Stars, thanks to her indefatigable positivity, vibrant cooking, and cheery catchphrase - “Hootie hoo!” But reality TV hadn’t really prepared her for being filmed on stage in front of a live audience in the fall of 2011. Carla Hall had been on television a lot before she filmed the debut episode of The Chew, the food-focused daytime talk show she co-hosts on ABC alongside Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Clinton Kelly, and Daphne Oz. ![]()
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