Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.

Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.

Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal.

A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

Today on the program, chef and TV personality, Carla Hall.

Carla was a fan favorite on top chef.

She co-hosted The Chew, and she's a judge on the newish Netflix show, Crazy Delicious.

I read a quote from you that I love, and you said, if you're not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.

That's right.

I truly believe that. I mean, when people get sick from food, they think it's a bad

ingredient, but it really is some bad mojo. I mean, it's an honor to cook for people

because however you're feeling goes into that food. The food that Carla wants for her last

meal is a true American classic, so much so that it's a favorite of many presidents past and present. Matthew Wendell cooked for President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, and their family for more than eight years. He'll join the show later to explain what cheeseburger diplomacy is. And I have spent my entire life knowing that I am three-quarters Romanian and a quarter Russian.

But if you're a descendant of enslaved people, you would have no idea where your people came from.

And you hear other people talking about, oh, I'm Irish or I'm Italian or I'm Greek and you're like, oh, I'm black.

Carla Hall says a DNA test forever changed the way she cooks.

Later in the show, I welcome the nonprofit old ways to talk about their free African heritage cooking classes.

But first, my conversation with Carla Hall.

Carla Hall took a long, winding path to cooking.

She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and in high school, she wanted to be an actress.

But when she didn't get into the one college drama program that she applied for, she studied

accounting instead. But you said that you hated accounting.

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