Carla Hall on cooking, courage, and curiosity
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I love black eyed peas.
Oh my God, I love black eyed peas. And so in the summer, I would do a
black eyed pea salad because I'm like, I'm not waiting. Listen, I've been eating one this week. I've been eating one this week.
Yes.
We're on the same wavelength. You get it.
There's a quick tip. You can get a regular store-bought hummus, get you a can of black eyed peas and just put them in the food processor a little bit of oil maybe if you want to do some tahini you can but honestly it gives you that quick fix of black eyed peas get you some carrots girl you can grill some celery what
and this is why we have you here today because you're going to get me together Today's guest takes me back to my early 20s. The year was 2008. I was a senior at Howard University. My friend Keith and I were on my futon watching one of our favorite shows, Top Chef. There was one competitor who we couldn't take our eyes off. She was funny. She was electric. Episode after episode, she made us wonder, who is this girl?
I think it's really important to have a really good attitude. At the point where I wasn't doing well, winning for me was to not be scared where I shut down.
She was so her, and she could cook her tail off. She was one of the only chefs to come in there from catering, not a brick-and-mortar business. Her name was Carla Hall. Carla didn't fit into a lot of people's ideas about what a TV debut looked like. She was authentic. She was spontaneous. She was undeniably herself. Since then, Carla has become a fixture in the food and entertainment world. From her tenure on the television show, The Chew.
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To her roles in BoJack Horseman and Girls Trip. I consider Carla to be the queen of the pivot. She's always doing something new. Now, as I've gotten older, I've realized how hard changing lanes like that can be. Your responsibilities are bigger. You're thinking about retirement and possibly starting to slow down into a more conventional lifestyle. But at 62, Carla is still going at it. She's just coming off a one-woman show and has a new cookbook, Carla Bakes, out now. Today, Carla is here with me to talk about how to make your next move, whether it's finding your new career or finding your next recipe. Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
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I mean, I've been watching you for almost two decades now, and you had all these different stints before you got into television, from accounting to modeling. But I mean, even still now in your career, you're always doing something different. You're hosting, cookbook writing, acting. We're going to get to that later. But in a way, I think of you as the queen of the pivot. But I'm wondering, how do you know when you've outgrown a space versus when it's time to tough it out and weather the storm? How do you know when it's time to pivot?
One, I'm curious. And I don't mind not knowing how to do something. I'm OK with asking people. There's a part of me, there's a sense of learning as much as I can. and then not feeling fulfilled in that space. I will stop and listen. Now, now, I must say, and my father was probably the only person who knew this and he called me out on it.
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