[6] After four years, she enrolled in L'Academie de Cuisine in Bethesda, Maryland, graduating with a Culinary Career Training certificate.

Most notably, she impressed Jacques Pépin, who said he could "die happy" after eating her fresh peas,[13] and Emeril Lagasse, who said he loved her gumbo.

Hall also became known on Top Chef for her philosophy of "cooking with love", which she defined as putting one's own care and warmth into food.

She performed well in this season, which included demonstrating her chicken pot pie recipe on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

[20] Hall appeared on the May 3, 2009, cover of the Washington Post Magazine, on a feature called "Fit for Fame", about still exercising while being famous.

She voiced Mpishi the harrier hawk in a season 2 episode of Disney Junior's The Lion Guard titled "Ono and the Egg".

[22][circular reference] In 2016, Hall made a cameo appearance in Fox's The Passion: New Orleans as a food truck operator.

[23] In 2018, Hall made a guest appearance on ABC's soap opera General Hospital, playing the Quartermaine family's cook.

[27] Hall appeared on Season 7 on Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship as a judge as a replacement for Lorraine Pascal, who could not make it due to COVID-19 restrictions that were in place at the time of filming.

The show took place on an edible set and was hosted by British comedian Jayde Adams alongside chefs and fellow judges Heston Blumenthal and Niklas Ekstedt.

As of 2020, Hall is currently with Sesame Street characters Cookie Monster and Gonger in a series of segments called Snack Chat.