20 Facts About Carla Hall

Carla Hall was born on May 12,1964 and is an American chef, television personality and former model.

Carla Hall appeared in the fifth and eighth seasons of Top Chef, Bravo's cooking competition show.

Carla Hall was a cohost on The Chew, a one-hour talk show centered on food from all angles, which premiered on ABC in September 2011.

Carla Hall graduated from Howard University's Business School with a degree in accounting in 1986.

Carla Hall then worked at Price Waterhouse in Tampa, Florida, and became a Certified Public Accountant.

Carla Hall then served as executive chef of the Washington Club, a private social club.

In 2001, Carla Hall started her own catering company, Alchemy Caterers, based in Wheaton, Maryland.

Carla Hall has written the cookbook Cooking with Love: Comfort Food that Hugs You.

Carla Hall became known on Top Chef for her philosophy of "cooking with love", which she defined as putting one's own care and warmth into food.

Carla Hall believes that if one is happy and calm while cooking, then this will show in the food, making it much better, whereas if one feels otherwise, it will degrade their cuisine.

Carla Hall was part of the cast of Top Chef: All-Stars, the eighth season of the show, which consisted of participants from past seasons.

Carla Hall performed well in this season, which included demonstrating her chicken pot pie recipe on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Carla Hall finished fifth overall in the competition, but was awarded "Fan Favorite" for the season by viewers of the show, which included beating out Fabio Viviani, who was voted Fan Favorite over Carla Hall when they both appeared in Season 5.

Since the first show that aired on September 26,2011, Carla Hall has been one of 5 cohosts on The Chew, a one-hour show on ABC centered on food from all angles.

Carla Hall remained a cohost of the show until its cancellation in spring 2018.

In 2014, Carla Hall launched a Kickstarter campaign where she raised $264,703 that exceeded her $250,000 goal from 1550 backers for the opening of her restaurant.

Carla Hall appeared on the May 3,2009, cover of the Washington Post Magazine, on a feature called "Fit for Fame", about still exercising while being famous.

Carla Hall portrayed a version of herself named "Spaghetti Scientist Carla Hall" in the BoJack Horseman episode "That Went Well".

Carla Hall voiced Mpishi the harrier hawk in a season 2 episode of Disney Junior's The Lion Guard titled "Ono and the Egg".

In 2020, Carla Hall appeared as a judge in the Channel 4 competition series Crazy Delicious.