With her signature tasty twists on tried-and-true classics, comfort food never tasted so good!įrom down-home deviled eggs with smoky bacon to silky and light spicy carrot-ginger Soup to the ultimate chicken pot pie with buttery crust on the bottom to her Granny’s unforgettably luscious five-flavor pound cake, Carla’s flavorful recipes are so deeply satisfying, they’ll become family favorites in your kitchen.įor Carla, the only way to make truly comforting food is to cook it from the heart, and in Cooking with Love, she shows you that love with her tempting, inspiring recipes for all sorts of sumptuous dishes, displayed in beautiful full-color photographs. In Cooking With Love, she serves up more than 100 fantastic recipes for food that hugs you. She became very well-known for her phrase, “Hootie Hoo” which she said she uses with her husband, whenever they want to know where the other person is.Former cohost of The Chew and a Top Chef: All-Stars Fan Favorite, Carla Hall serves up more than 100 fantastic recipes for twists on classic comfort food.Ĭarla Hall first won the hearts of fans nationwide on Bravo’s Top Chef, then won Fan Favorite on Top Chef: All-Stars. While at the show, she gained popularity because of her personality, even though she did not win the Fan Favorite award that season. She was quite pleased with her fresh peas and gumbo, but in the very end she finished as a runner up to the first-place winner (Hosea Rosenberg). At the beginning, she was in the middle of the pack, but after the Thanksgiving challenge, she was out on top. They are purported to have a very supportive relationship, including doing yoga together.Ĭarla Hall’s real cooking breakthrough was in 2008, when she was chosen to be one of the contestants on season 5 of Top Chef on the Bravo network. He cooks a variety of food for their family. One quote she is known for is, "If you're not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation." And since she’s often tired at home, she leaves the cooking to her husband. And apparently, even though Hall was a caterer and is a renowned chef, Lyons does most of the cooking at home. Hall and Lyons actually met online, on the popular internet dating website,. Together, they have a son named Noah Lyons. Lyons is a Food and Drug Administration lawyer as well as a professional photographer who shoots with Nikons. Hall married her husband, Matthew Lyons, in 2006. And at some point she changed the name of her business to Alchemy by Carla. She later also added her own line of artisanal cookies. After some years as a sous chef, she worked her way up and became an executive chef at State Plaza, which is a sister hotel.Īfter that, in 2001, she began her own food-related business, called Alchemy Caterers. In 1996, she completed an externship at Henlye Park Hotel, where she was later promoted to sous chef. She went to culinary school at L’Academie de Cuisine in Maryland where she earned a Culinary Career Training Certificate. After doing that for four years, she decided to get serious about food and cooking. She started delivering lunches, first only to friends, and then created a catering business in Maryland called the Lunch Bunch. When she moved back to the United States, she moved back to Washington, D.C. While she was in Europe, she discovered that she had a real affinity and love for food. She did runway work in many fashion shows, as well as doing photo shoots for print. She wanted to pursue her modeling career instead, so she went to Europe to work as a model. In 1988, Hall decided to leave accounting for good. While she was there, she also became a Certified Public Accountant. After graduation, Hall worked at the esteemed large accounting and consulting firm, Price Waterhouse, in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from the Howard University School of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a major in Accounting, in 1986. She graduated from Hillsboro High School and went on to college at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Carla Hall was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 12, 1964.
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