Top Chef hit a little differently for its 17th and most recent season. Filmed entirely in 2019, it premiered mere days after the COVID-19 pandemic forced most of its audience to stay at home.
Host Padma Lakshmi and her fellow executive producers could not have known that the 14-episode run, which sent a cast of returning fan favorites to restaurants around Los Angeles and a culinary tour of Italy, would feel like a postcard from a bygone era.
The 2010 Emmy winner for outstanding competition program is again nominated in the main reality field, as are co-hosts Tom Colicchio and Lakshmi — who recently spoke with THR about how to make the show moving forward (no more shared plates!) and her just renewed Hulu series Taste the Nation, a domestic.
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