Monti Carlo
Monti Carlo is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Senior Editor of Food & Dining, The two‑time Telly Award–winning Puerto Rican food media personality and cookbook author reaches over 1 million followers across social media with her passion, humor, and deep food knowledge.
Monti first broke through as the first Puerto Rican woman to compete on Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef, and has since built a career spanning Netflix, Roku, Food Network, and PBS. She has served the James Beard Foundation as a judge, host, and member of the Broadcast Media Awards subcommittee since 2020. Her cookbook Spanglish, a love letter to bicultural Puerto Rican cooking, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s Simon Element on May 19, 2026.
Carlo's first time working in a restaurant kitchen was at Stoney River in Roswell. A graduate of the Atlanta Broadcast Institute, she began her media career in 2000 as the News Director and morning show sidekick on Atlanta’s Classic Rock station, Z93. It was a 2001 review from the AJC that helped keep her family's restaurant from closing its doors. She considers her move back to Atlanta to work at the publication that once saved her family's business the most full-circle moment of her 26-year media career.
Monti Carlo is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Senior Editor of Food & Dining, The two‑time Telly Award–winning Puerto Rican food media personality and cookbook author reaches over 1 million followers across social media with her passion, humor, and deep food knowledge.
Monti first broke through as the first Puerto Rican woman to compete on Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef, and has since built a career spanning Netflix, Roku, Food Network, and PBS. She has served the James Beard Foundation as a judge, host, and member of the Broadcast Media Awards subcommittee since 2020. Her cookbook Spanglish, a love letter to bicultural Puerto Rican cooking, will be published by Simon & Schuster’s Simon Element on May 19, 2026.
Carlo's first time working in a restaurant kitchen was at Stoney River in Roswell. A graduate of the Atlanta Broadcast Institute, she began her media career in 2000 as the News Director and morning show sidekick on Atlanta’s Classic Rock station, Z93. It was a 2001 review from the AJC that helped keep her family's restaurant from closing its doors. She considers her move back to Atlanta to work at the publication that once saved her family's business the most full-circle moment of her 26-year media career.
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