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''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series. The contestants, sometimes referred to as "cheftestants", compete against each other in episodic challenges to become the next "Top Chef" and win a cash prize. The show has aired 22 seasons since its premiere in March 2006 and featured 330 different participants. Several contestants have competed in multiple seasons, such as with the two all-star editions. Many are also asked to reappear as guest judges on the show. The contestants are selected through auditions. Although the series began with people with vastly differing amounts of cooking experience, such as a sommelier and culinary school student in the first season, later seasons would focus on casting professional chefs and restaurateurs. For a typical season, casting producers will perform a nationwide search, researching the latest recipients of culinary accolades, like the James Beard Foundation Awards and Michelin stars; reviewing recommendations from pas ...
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Top Chef
''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo in March 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the company that created '' Project Runway''. The success of the show has resulted in multiple spin-offs, such as ''Top Chef Masters'', '' Top Chef: Just Desserts'', '' Top Chef Junior'', '' Top Chef Amateurs'', and '' Top Chef Family Style'', as well as Spanish-language spin-offs, including ''Top Chef Estrellas'' and '' Top Chef VIP''. Numerous international adaptations of the show have also been produced. Show format Basic format ''Top Chef'' is a cooking show that uses a progressive elimination format. The beginning of each season starts with twelve to nineteen professional ...
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Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ...
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Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, Southeast after Atlanta metropolitan area, Atlanta, and the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Miami is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Miami has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and internation ...
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Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of Architecture of England, English architecture since late History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, science, and information technologies. Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and River Cherwell, Cherwell. It had a population of in . It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon period. The name � ...
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