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Kish spent a decade working at eating places in Boston, rising by means of the ranks to change into the chef de delicacies at Barbara Lynch’s crown jewel restaurant, Menton.
Kristen Kish, an acclaimed chef who received the tenth season of “High Chef” greater than a decade in the past, will return as the subsequent host of the long-running culinary competitors, Bravo introduced on Tuesday. She’s going to succeed Padma Lakshmi, who stated final month she can be departing the present, which she had hosted for 19 of its 20 seasons.
Kish, who has hosted a number of different food-related collection, will take the reins for Season 21, which the community has stated will happen in Wisconsin. She’s going to be a part of meals author Gail Simmons and chef Tom Colicchio on the judges’ desk.
“‘High Chef’ is the place I began my journey — first as a competing chef, then a visitor choose and now as host, I’ve the distinction of serving to to proceed to construct this model,” Kish stated in a press release. “It looks like coming house.”
Kish, who was adopted from South Korea and grew up in Kentwood, Michigan, attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. She then spent a decade working at eating places in Boston, rising by means of the ranks to change into the chef de delicacies at Barbara Lynch’s crown jewel restaurant, Menton.
As The New York Instances reported in 2014, Lynch had inspired Kish and one other younger chef from her restaurant group to compete on “High Chef.”
Kish received Season 10, and has change into a well-known face on the present in recent times as a visitor choose. She has additionally opened her first restaurant, launched a cookbook, and has hosted or starred in a number of exhibits together with “36 Hours,” a Journey Channel present that could be a collaboration with the Instances; “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” and “Eating places on the Finish of the World.”
Ryan Flynn, an NBCUniversal senior vp, stated in a press release that Kish was “the right host for the subsequent chapter of ‘High Chef’ as we tackle a brand new area of the nation we haven’t explored.”
Each Colicchio and Simmons printed posts on Instagram Tuesday afternoon applauding the selection of Kish.
“She is a superb chef, brings a world class perspective and most significantly, having been a previous contestant and choose, she is aware of what it takes to win @bravotopchef,” Colicchio wrote.
“Psyched past phrases to have her pull up that seat at Judges’ Desk,” Simmons stated.
In a press release to the Instances on Tuesday, Kish added that she was already “overwhelmed by the superb outpouring of assist by the followers of ‘High Chef’ embracing this new chapter.”
“I’m desirous to get began!” she stated.
This text initially appeared in The New York Instances.