Michael Midgley News Today

Bravo's wildly popular, enduring "Top Chef" competition series launched in 2006 in the foodie capital of San Francisco without a single local "cheftestant." But in the years since, a sizeable number of NorCal contestants have participated in the fast-paced competition.

Top Chef royalty Padma Lakshmi recently opened up about which contestant on the series was the one she was most "pissed off" at.

Padma Lakshmi looked back at her time as a Top Chef host and named the contestant she got the most “pissed off” at.

The longtime star of Bravo's cooking competition explains what spurred her sudden exit, who she'd like to host next and the worst dishes of her run.

The last time Dr. Eyad Almasri had a day off was in November, when he was infected with the novel coronavirus. His symptoms were not life-threatening, but it crushed him, he said, that he couldn’t be with his patients for 10 days. A pulmonologist with the Fresno campus of UC San Francisco, Almasri works in the intensive care unit at Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno — so packed with COVID-19 patients that the hospital has had to create makeshift isolation wards, including...