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‘Top Chef’ producers dish up Quickfire Challenge secrets – Variety
By Carole Horst, June 30, 2022 For 19 seasons, the gifted contestants on Bravo’s Emmy-winning “Top Chef” have been thrown into the reality competition show deep end with the show’s signature Quickfire Challenge. While the Quickfire Challenge is not as diabolical as, say, “Chopped’s” baskets, it’s fast-moving, and constructed around themes or local ingredients or…
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How Padma Lakshmi Cooked Her Way Through the Pandemic: Women Who Travel Podcast | Condé Nast Traveler
We sit down with the ‘Top Chef’ host. By Lale Arikoglu and Meredith Carey, March 31, 2021 Audio podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-padma-lakshmi-cooked-her-way-through-the-pandemic/id1321118314?i=1000515120345 Padma Lakshmi has had a busy 12 months. She spent the early stages of lockdown alphabetizing her spices—and then reorganizing them by region—and cooking an incredible amount of food at home. Then her new show,…
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Las Vegas Chef Jamie Tran of the Black Sheep Competes on Season 18 of ‘Top Chef’
Tran makes a memorable debut on the cooking competition that heads to Portland, Oregon Jamie Tran, the executive chef and co-owner of the Vietnamese-influenced The Black Sheep in the southwest part of Las Vegas, competes on Season 18 of Top Chef, the Bravo reality series that pits 15 chefs against each other through challenges and…