Tickets are $125 per person before May 15, $150 after May 15, and may be purchased online at benefit the Greater Atlantic City charities. We’re thrilled to spend an afternoon with Carla to hear how her energy, resilience and creativeness blended to shape the business conglomerate and community advocate she is today,” said event Co-chair Brett Matik. “After postponing the event due to COVID, the Women’s Forum provides an opportunity for our distinguished speaker to share her life story and career accomplishments. Hall is active in several charities and non-profit organizations including Helen Keller International and the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture where she serves as a culinary ambassador for Sweet Home Café. For more than 20 years, she has also owned a catering company, Alchemy by Carla Hall. A trained chef, Hall taught classes at CulinAerie and her alma mater, L’Academie de Cuisine. Hall is well-known as the former co-host of the Emmy Award winning foodie and lifestyle show, “The Chew.” In addition, she has competed on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and “Top Chef: All Stars,” and served as a judge on the Food Network’s “Halloween Baking Championship.” Hall believes food connects us all and strives to communicate this through cooking, work and daily interactions.Īt the event, guests will enjoy a delicious luncheon and have an opportunity to win dozens of incredible prizes, including restaurant gift certificates, spa packages, jewelry, wine baskets and more during the silent auction.Īs a published author, Hall has written three cookbooks, “Cooking with Love: Comfort Food That Hugs You,” “Comfort Food: Favorite Dishes from Around the World,” and “Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration,” which landed on the best cookbook list and earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination. Thursday, June 9 at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. All rights reserved.įYI! You can order Carla Hall's Nashville Hot Fried Chicken, Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies + more online right now.ATLANTIC CITY – After a two-year wait, JFS has announced that television personality, chef and author Carla Hall will take center stage at its 27 th annual Women’s Forum being held 10:15 a.m. Make-Ahead: This salad can be refrigerated for up to 1 day.Īdapted from "Carla Hall’s Soul Food" by Carla Hall. Get ready for this salad to become one of your favorites." - Carla Hall It can sit on the summer picnic table without wilting so it's the perfect potluck dish. Down South, we call this a sitting salad. In this salad, cucumbers and onion balance the peas' creaminess with crunch, and tomatoes burst juiciness. Because they're nice and mild, I drench them with a hot sauce dressing, honeyed yet sharp with garlic and mustard. And they're delicious.īlack-eyed peas are tender, skin to center, and this helps them soak up sauces. That tradition comes from a long history of black-eyed peas symbolizing luck and prosperity in Africa, where they’re part of spiritual ceremonies too. We eat them for good luck on New Year's in a rice dish known as hoppin' John. But they hold a special significance in the heart of every African-American. ![]() Originally eaten only by slaves, black-eyed peas became a part of all Southerner's meals. That's why they're sometimes called cowpeas and field peas. In the Carolinas, slaves planted black-eyed peas in the same way they had back home - along edges of fields to keep down weeds and enrich the soil. The crop spread through the continent, then traveled in slave ship holds to America. More than five thousand years ago, they were domesticated in West Africa. "When I say black-eyed peas have a long history, I mean long.
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