‘Top Chef’ is back for a ‘global’ 20th season: Why it’s still cooking after all these years
Please pack your knives and go.
How many times has Padma Lakshmi, the ever-chic host and judge of Bravo's reality institution "Top Chef," uttered those words to eager, hungry chefs competing for a cash prize and culinary glory?
At least a few hundred at this point, as the cooking competition series begins its 20th season (Thursdays, 9 EST/PST). Since its debut in 2006, "Chef" has made Lakshmi a household name, launched the careers of dozens of chefs, weathered a pandemic that brought the restaurant industry to its knees and created entertaining controversy out of pea soup and risotto. And in some ways, it feels like "Chef" is just getting started.
As it heads to London for a first-time "World All-Stars" competition in Season 20, we look back on how "Chef" has cooked up a recipe fo...