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When in Rome, Padma Lakshmi heads straight for the focaccia

The host of Hulu’s Taste The Nation and Bravo’s Top Chef answers The A.V. Club's 11 Questions

Saloni Gajjar

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Head Of The Class tops your Thursday night roundup

Plus, Taste The Nation: Holiday Edition and new seasons of HBO Max's Frayed and gen: LOCK

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Top Chef's Gabe Erales issues apology after being fired from job for harassment

Erales characterized his firing as being the result of a "poor judgment call," and apologized to his wife

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Padma Lakshmi says Top Chef contestant Gabe Erales' sexual misconduct allegations should be investigated

The chef was fired from his executive chef position at Comedor in December 2020 for the alleged misconduct

Tatiana Tenreyro

7/02/21 4:07PM

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Who will win Top Chef: Portland?

Last year, we here at The A.V. Club took on the task of placing odds on which Top Chef all-star would win season 17…

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The Top Chef finale's food was so good it made judges cry

Let me to begin by saying I did not expect to be writing about a finale without one Gregory “Greg” Gourdet in the…

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Padma Lakshmi unpacks American cuisine through immigration in Hulu’s affecting Taste The Nation

It’s no wonder that the best American food shows are those that whisk hosts off to other countries. It’s there, not…

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Two Top Chef favorites duke it out in a deeply personal "Restaurant Wars"

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Padma Lakshmi to Taste The Nation on Hulu in June

Padma Lakshmi has always seemed like she was just a tad too good and nice to have been stuck hosting Top Chef for…

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Full Frontal teams up with Padma Lakshmi to raise funds, awareness for immigrant workers

In a move that would make the late Anthony Bourdain proud, the team at Full Frontal With Samantha Bee is raising…

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The finalists dream up some of the most creative dishes in Top Chef history as season 15 comes to a close

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Aspen's Food & Wine Classic sets the stage for the finale on Top Chef's penultimate episode

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Top Chef gets emotional as the chefs reinterpret the dishes that helped shape them

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Top Chef's finale looms larger as the chefs scale the peaks of Telluride

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Stephen King and the risotto's curse haunt Top Chef as it secures its final four

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Top Chef loses two of its best in an episode that pulls no punches

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Restaurant Wars brings out the best (and the worst) in Top Chef's final eight

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Frustrations boil over as Top Chef sprints toward the halfway mark

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It's all about beer, pretzels, and sausage as Top Chef celebrates Oktoberfest

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Top Chef sings a song of ice and fire as the chefs take to the snowy Denver wilderness

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Randall Colburn

1/05/18 12:30AM

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