Top Chef

Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the Bravo cable television network in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated each week. The winning chef receives $100,000 in seed money to encourage his or her culinary career, is featured in Food & Wine magazine, and appears at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. The winner was also awarded a suite of Sears Kenmore kitchen appliances in Seasons One and Two, and the Kenmore brand was heavily featured on the show in those seasons. Sears had been a series sponsor since Season One, along with Calphalon and Toyota. Top Chef began using GE appliances in Season Three. Glad began underwriting the $100,000 prize money in Season Two.1 Season Three currently just ended.2 The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway.

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