Carla Halls Soul Food, Carla Hall
Carla Halls Soul Food, Carla Hall
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Carla Hall's Soul Food
Everyday and Celebration

Author: Carla Hall, Genevieve Ko

Narrator: Carla Hall

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 10/23/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Beloved TV chef (ABC’s Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo’s Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite comfort cuisine.In Carla Hall’s Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul food’s history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. Carla shows us that soul food is more than barbecue and mac and cheese. Traditionally a plant-based cuisine, everyday soul food is full of veggie goodness that’s just as delicious as cornbread and fried chicken.From Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette to Tomato Pie with Garlic Bread Crust, the recipes in Carla Hall’s Soul Food deliver her distinctive Southern flavors using farm-fresh ingredients. The results are light, healthy, seasonal dishes with big, satisfying tastes—the mouthwatering soul food everyone will want a taste of.Recipes include:Cracked Shrimp with Comeback SauceGhanaian Peanut Beef Stew with Onions and CeleryCaribbean Smothered Chicken with Coconut, Lime, and ChilesRoasted Cauliflower with Raisins and Lemon-Pepper MilletField Peas with Country HamChunky Tomato Soup with Roasted Okra RoundsSweet Potato Pudding with ClementinesPoured Caramel CakeWith Carla Hall’s Soul Food, you can indulge in rich celebration foods, such as deviled eggs, buttermilk biscuits, Carla’s famous take on Nashville hot fried chicken, and a decadent coconut cream layer cake.Featuring 145 original recipes, 120 color photographs, and a whole lotta love, Carla Hall’s Soul Food is a wonderful blend of the modern and the traditional—honoring soul food’s heritage and personalizing it with Carla’s signature fresh style. The result is an irresistible and open-hearted collection of recipes and stories that share love and joy, identity, and memory.

About Carla Hall

Five days a week Carla Hall bursts into your kitchens as the co-host of ABC’s talk show “The Chew.” Carla has never considered doing anything more than following her heart. From accountant to model to caterer to talk show host, life is a journey, and every wrong turn leads to a right.After graduating college with an Accounting degree Carla moved to Europe to pursue a modeling career which ultimately led her to discovering her true calling as a chef. While Carla didn’t start cooking professionally until she was well into her 20’s, her recipes reflect those classic dishes from her childhood growing up in Nashville, TN surrounded by soul food cooked from the heart.  Her culinary philosophy is all about keeping it simple and flavorful. (“If you don’t know how to perfectly roast a chicken, that’s where you need to start in the kitchen.”)Inside and out of the kitchen, Carla believes that you have to, “Say Yes! Adventure follows, then growth.”

About Genevieve Ko

Genevieve Ko is a graduate of Yale University. She is a freelance food writer and a consultant to chefs and restaurants. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on January 24, 2023

Hall journey's back to her childhood home to explore, talk about, and share the diverse foods of the Black experience in TN and beyond. Her wanderings through place and thought are heartfelt and fun and this book is full of delicious foods with personal histories that she recounts with joy and rever......more

Goodreads review by Emily on November 27, 2018

Are you supposed to cry while you read a cookbook? Carla's connection to her family and ancestors is so beautiful and so in the spirit of how we should experience food I cried the whole way. Also the recipes look amazing.......more

Goodreads review by Devin on January 26, 2025

Cried like 3 times reading this book. I needed to get into the soul food cookbook world, I guess. Love the mix of history, humor, and personality in her book. And the images are great, which always makes me love a cookbook. Lastly, I actually feel excited and capable of trying some of these recipes.......more

Goodreads review by Dean on December 08, 2018

I read a lot of cookbooks, most are good, but this one really stands out. I recommend this to anyone, check it out. A nice departure from the Paula Deen stuff I see a lot, there are some really yummy takes on a lot of favorites. I love how much this highlights vegetables in ways that make you really......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 19, 2018

I liked the book. I made 10 recipes from the book with no modifications. All of the recipes were well written and I will be trying more in the near future.......more