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Top Chef Recap: Les Quatre Saisons
Does food need a narrative to be truly great? The chefs do an awful lot of mythologizing this week — for better and for worse.
It’s a lovely note about how hard they worked to open their first food truck, and how Top Chef could be a similarly rewarding “blind leap.” He finds it “very motivating,” which of course sets off my Ominous Edit Radar like crazy. • Kristen Kish Suit Envy Watch: I tried and failed to get onboard with her tanned leather Quickfire corset, but I’m all in on the crisp pinstripe vest-and-trouser set she wore to the Elimination dinner. • Speaking of Punkie, I highly rec Padma Lakshmi’s essay about visiting her New Orleans family for Mardi Gras in last year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing anthology (which she co-edited with Eater writer Jaya Saxena).
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