Carla Lalli Music
Now publishing as Carla Lalli, the cookbook author and cooking host shares recipes and personal stories in Food Processing and her 2026 cookbook memoir, Food is a Feeling.
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Bon AppétitOverview
- Based in
- Brooklyn, New York
- Work
- Cookbook author, food writer, video host, and podcast host
- Now publishing as
- Carla Lalli
- Before food media
- Restaurant cook, kitchen manager, and Shake Shack’s first general manager
- Familiar face from
- Bon Appétit’s Back to Back Chef and test kitchen videos
- Latest book
- Food is a Feeling, published September 8, 2026
Mini bio
How it started.
Carla worked in publishing after college before attending the French Culinary Institute. In a memoir excerpt, she traces the start of her restaurant work to an internship at Montrachet in 1998. She went on to work as a line cook, kitchen manager, and the first general manager of Shake Shack.
The test kitchen years.
Her move into food media included a job at Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food before Bon Appétit. As Bon Appétit’s food director and a host of Back to Back Chef, she brought practical kitchen instruction to video. In one 2018 episode, she guided Natalie Portman through vegan carpaccio using only spoken directions.
Cooking on her own terms.
Where Cooking Begins introduced her flexible approach to home cooking in 2019 and won a James Beard Book Award the following year. That Sounds So Good followed in 2021 and became a New York Times bestseller. She also built Carla’s Cooking Show and writes Food Processing on Substack. Her third book, Food is a Feeling, pairs personal essays with recipes about the emotional place food holds in everyday life.
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Quotes
Cooking, by my definition, is heat plus time.Carla Lalli, Food Processing
From her pancake advice, October 25, 2026: https://carlalalli.substack.com/p/two-new-recipes-from-your-pancake
Trivia
- She shares a birthday with Julia Child and Napoleon, according to her official biography.
- Her natural sleep schedule is 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., according to her official biography.
- In a 2016 Bon Appétit Q&A, she named her pressure cooker and black steel pan among her essential kitchen tools.
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