Carla Hall on Crank Calls, Hot Chicken, and Unlocking Your Creativity

Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 6:45 p.m.

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"Cooking is the way I can give a piece of my heart to someone," says The Chew\'s Carla Hall. On this week\'s Special Sauce, I chat with Hall about how she hopped around on her career journey, going from being an accountant at Price Waterhouse ("Accounting was my safety job, but I hated it," she recalls) to modeling in Europe (she often paid for her lodging there by cooking for her hosts) to running a lunch delivery service in Washington, DC, to becoming a contestant on Top Chef.

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