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Top Chef Season-Premiere Recap: Great Northern Exposure
After last year’s soul searching, Top Chef gets back to basics.
Luckily, the judges supplement their ingredients with three more of their own choosing, thus rounding the requisite number up to six in honor of Toronto’s nickname of “The Six.” Kristen gives them tomatoes, Gail offers up chives, and Tom (of course) dictates at least one of their proteins by unveiling a pile of clams. The most dramatic moment comes when Bailey Sullivanpresents the blue team’s dish and fails to mention Anya El-Wattar or her cabbage contribution entirely, making it clear that she and fellow Chicago chef Zubair Mohajirmight’ve forgotten they had a third teammate at all. • With apologies to Kat explaining her job as Billy Corgan’s personal vegan chef, my biggest gasp of the night went to Katianna, whose (very lovely) story about connecting with her Korean-American roots also included a casual reveal that her adopted brother is….actor Reid Scott?!
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