**Today's Episode: Carla Hall **

This week, we're excited to welcome Carla Hall to SALT + SPINE, the podcast on stories behind cookbooks.

Carla is the author of Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration. She has written two other cookbooks, appeared on Top Chef and Top Chef All-Stars, and co-hosted ABC's The Chew from 2011 to 2018.

We sat down with Carla at our studio inside San Francisco's The Civic Kitchen to discuss the road trip she took for her latest book, her path to becoming a chef, and how she's using her platform to tell the food stories of black Americans.

Plus this week: We talk with The Washington Post's Bonnie Benwick about the top-selling cookbook of 2018 and why food media ignored it, and as always we check in with Celia Sack at Omnivore Books in San Francisco

Bonus Salt + Spine Features:

• Recipe: Chunky Tomato Soup with Roasted Okra Rounds
• Get the Cookbook: Omnivore Books (signed copies) | Amazon

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Read More:

• In Soul Food Cookbook, Chef Carla Hall Celebrates Black Culinary Heritage [NPR]
• Inside Carla Hall’s New Soul Food Cookbook And Roller Coaster Year [Essence]
• Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. [Washington Post]

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