The guest chef this week at Olney Farmers Market was the lovely Carla Hall. Carla was one of the finalist on the Reality Cooking show Top Chef and the owner of Alchemy Caterers, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Carla's did a cooking demo of Roasted Butternut Squash Chili with Crisp Polenta Rounds. The demo was so much fun and she had the entire market captivated with her warm wit and wisdom about life and food.
It turns out that Carla and I were in Business school at Howard University at about the same time. I knew she looked familiar. What I liked best about Carla was her down to earth and gracious manner, people kept coming up to her at the market and she would take time to talk to them.
