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Top Chef

Premiered

Mar 8, 2006

Network

Bravo

Top Chef

About

Culinary competition series in which chefs take on various challenges to be judged by a panel of professional chefs and other members of the food and wine industries. Katie Lee presented season one before Padma Lakshmi took over for the long-run beginning in season two.

Trivia

Judges have included Tom ColicchioGail SimmonsGraham ElliotTed AllenEric RipertAnthony BourdainEmeril Lagasse and others. It spawned spinoff series such as Top Chef Masters, Top Chef: Just Desserts and Top Chef Junior.

#72 competition

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