"Top Chef" is back for an all-new season, bringing us new chefs, new judges, and a new location to love. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience.

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred What’s the difference between a chef and a home cook? That’s a question that is obvious on one level but more complicated when you ...

Dario Stephen, better known as Chef D, teaches students the fundamentals of cooking one class at a time. ‘I try to influence them with a lot of love, a lot of passion, and a skill they will have for ...

Chef’d, the meal-kit brand that made a move into hundreds of retail stores this year and counted among its backers Campbell Soup Co., Smithfield Foods and FreshDirect, abruptly shut down this week, ...

Winning Top Chef comes with a lot more than just bragging rights. Previous winners have used the prize money and their newfound fame to launch restaurants, write cookbooks, and venture into other ...

Much like working as a chef in any restaurant kitchen, no matter the caliber or cuisine, "Top Chef" can be a particularly unique and rigorous experience. In many cases, a general sense of grit and ...

For the first time in Top Chef history, the Season 23 cheftestants include life partners who co-own and operate a restaurant, as well as a pair of highly competitive identical twin brothers. Together ...

Longtime San Diegan Stefani De Palma, who worked her way up from pastry chef to chef de cuisine over the past 15 years at Michelin three-star Addison restaurant, was selected on Sunday to lead Team ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kristin L. Wolfe is a New York-based journalist who covers food. Imagine what “Go-to-work-with-mom-or-dad day” looked like for ...