The Emmy award-winning Top Chef kicks off in 18th season on April 1 and Padma Lakshmi has hosted the reality competition for 17 of them (she was asked to do the first season but was unable to — we get into that in the episode).
Throughout the run of the Bravo series, Lakshmi has seen — and eaten — a lot. She stopped by Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast to spill all the tea about the series and how it’s been like for her in the past 17 seasons.This season was filmed in Portland during the pandemic and since food culture and the show is such a communal event, there were many changes made.
Lakshmi revealed that the chefs will not be going on wild 30-minute shopping sprees at Whole Foods. Instead, the series will reflect the times and they will
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