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Is Top Chef still top after Top Chef Carolinas?

Is Top Chef still top after Top Chef Carolinas?

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On this week’s episode: Top Chef Carolinas is over, and no spoilers here as I look at the season and the franchise to ask: is Top Chef deserving of the title of top culinary reality show? Plus: two Kristen Kish related recommendations, and stick around to the end for life advice from reality TV, also from Top Chef host Kristen Kish!

Curtain Pull

  • Top Chef doesn't want you to see this 'sensitive information'
  • Charlotte paid $1.2 million for Top Chef. Did they get their money's worth?

Review Review

  • Top Chef Carolinas finale recap: toast the winner
  • Dear Top Chef: an open letter to a show adrift
  • Top Chef spoiled/solved the Restaurant Wars/Last Chance Kitchen mystery
  • Kristen Kish is the best part of Top Chef Wisconsin
  • How America's Culinary Cup was cooked to be paired with Survivor

Recommendations

  • The Dish with Kish
  • Fast Foodies (stream free on truTV)
  • Memoir and other true queer stories for Pride Month
    • Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish

Credits

  • Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV is copyright 2026 by Reality Blurred LLC.
  • Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
  • Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.

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