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Carla Lalli Music on Overcoming Cooking Barriers

By: Hannah Lee Leidy

Preparing a meal at the end of the day, whiling away weekend hours with baking projects, and gathering around the table with loved ones are all sorts of therapeutic escapes for many of us. For James Beard award-winning cookbook author and Bon Appetít alum Carla Lalli Music, however, cooking and thinking about food is very much a job.

You’d never know it from reading a cookbook, watching one of her cooking videos, or listening to her podcast. She talks about it so comfortably: Putting five items on her grocery list and winging the rest once she gets to the store. Or, creating a quick, pantry-ingredient dinner to feed her family of four. Food, for her, is not an escape but the place where her professional and personal lives intersect. She lives by the mantra, “Always be cooking.”

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Date Published: 04.29.22
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About The Author

Hannah Lee Leidy

Hannah Lee Leidy is a food writer and editor based in the Carolinas. She is currently the digital content editor for Our State magazine, a position she came into following her time at The Local Palate. Her contributions have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Culture, and Eater. She’s spent time working in restaurants in both front and back of house positions, doing everything from burning gateaux to expediting to shaking a Manhattan (don’t worry, this only happened once). An avid curd nerd, her favorite beat is reporting on boutique cheese makers; she’ll sniff out every creamery near and far whenever traveling. When not parenting a Bernese mountain pup named Ava, you’ll find her running or working on her lamination technique.

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