Chef/Best-Selling Author/Television Personality

Best-selling author and television personality Carla Hall has been entertaining audiences with her enthusiasm for life and warm personality for years.

Having spent 7 years co-hosting The Chew, Carla has been featured on shows such as BakeAway Camp (judge), Holiday Baking Championship (judge), and Worst Cooks in America. She also served as a judge on Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking. Carla hosted the Emmy-winning food and travel show Chasing Flavor sharing her curiosity about the history of America’s most delicious dishes. She has recently re-teamed with Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon of The Chew for a brand-new podcast, Chewed Up and will next be seen as a mentor on Next Level Baker with Gordon Ramsay.

This fall, Carla’s very first book devoted entirely to baking, Carla Bakes, was published. Bringing her signature joy and playfulness, it is filled with over 80 recipes for baking savory and sweet goods and is rooted in Carla’s Southern traditions and inspired by her world travels. Her most recent cookbook, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration, was published in 2018, landing on annual “Best Cookbook” lists across the country and receiving an NAACP Image Awards nomination.

She first won over audiences when she competed on Top Chef and Top Chef: All Stars and shared her philosophy to always cook with love.

Outside of the kitchen, Carla recently impressed audiences and critics alike with a sold-out run of her one-woman show, Carla Hall: Please Underestimate Me at the Olney Theatre in Maryland. Her belief in intention, connection, and nourishment beyond the plate also led her to co-create The MeMenu, a personal growth framework designed to help people invest time and care in themselves with the same thoughtfulness they bring to food.

Carla is very active with a number of charities and not-for-profit organizations that reflect her passion for causes close to her heart. She is on the Board of Trustees for GenYouth and Beyond Bedtime.