Carla Hall
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Carla Hall at the Riverdale Park Farmers Market, Riverdale Park, Maryland, October 2009
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May 12, 1964 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Education | L'Academie de Cuisine (Gaithersburg, MD), Howard University |
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Carla Hall (born May 12, 1964) is an American chef, television personality and former model.
She was a finalist in the fifth and eighth seasons of Top Chef, Bravo's cooking competition show. She is currently one of four cohosts on The Chew, a one-hour talk show centered on food from all angles, which premiered in September 2011 on ABC. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Hall was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Howard University's Business School with a degree in accounting in 1986. She then worked for two years at Price Waterhouse, and obtained a CPA certificate.
In 1988, Hall shifted focus and spent several years working as a model on the runways of Paris, Milan and London. It was in the first of these three cities that she quickly fell in love with the art of food.
Upon returning to the United States, Hall moved to Washington, D.C., where she started a lunch delivery service called the Lunch Bunch. After working there for four years, she enrolled in L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, graduating with a Culinary Career Training certificate. From here, she went on to serve an externship at the Henley Park Hotel in 1996, where she was then promoted to sous chef. In the following years, she worked as the executive chef at the State Plaza, a sister hotel, and the Washington Club, a private social club.
In 2001, Hall started her own catering company, Alchemy Caterers, based in Silver Spring, Maryland. She remains in charge of the company, which she renamed Alchemy by Carla Hall. Hall has written the cookbook Cooking with Love: Comfort Food that Hugs You.
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