Carla Lalli Music

Carla Lalli is an American chef, cookbook author, and YouTube personality. She was a food editor at large of Bon Appétit and was known for her appearances in videos produced for the magazine's YouTube channel, most notably as the host of Back-to-Back Chef. Lalli left the magazine in 2020 after alleging that Bon Appétit and Condé Nast Entertainment had engaged in racial discrimination.

Early life and education Lalli was born to an Italian-American family, where her mother worked as a food critic at New West and as a cookbook editor at Simon & Schuster.

Lalli first appeared in videos on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel in 2015 and would make regular appearances in recipe preparation videos in the subsequent years.

In August 2020, two months after the resignation of editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport and the subsequent fallout regarding inequitable pay for staff and contributors of color, several members of the Test Kitchen, including Lalli, announced they would no longer film videos for the Bon Appétit YouTube channel due to a continued lack of progress in resolving issues at Condé Nast Entertainment.

A cookbook by Lalli, Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook, was published by Penguin Random House on March 19, 2019. In May 2020, the cookbook earned the 2020 James Beard Foundation Book Award in the category "General". Lalli announced she was working on a second cookbook in October 2019. In December 2020, Lalli launched a new collaborative Instagram Live series with Bon Appétit alumna Molly Baz called You Got Snack'd. along with a new corresponding weekly YouTube series. Each weekly episode features Lalli cooking a recipe from the book.

Works

Books

Web shows and series +List of appearances in web shows and seriesYearTitleRoleNotes August 2017 – December 2019 Back-to-Back Chef Former Food Director, Food Editor at Large 1 season December 2019 – November 2020 (as contributor) Making Perfect Former Food Director, Food Editor at Large 2 seasons November 2020 – present Carla’s Cooking Show Herself Ongoing Patreon series

Personal life Lalli resides in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and has two children. She is divorced. She was the daughter-in-law of actor Lorenzo Music, who was the original voice of Jim Davis' comic strip character Garfield.