Jamie Tran Battled a Bum Knee and Anxiety During the Latest ‘Top Chef: Portland’
The chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep talks about her experience on the show
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Jamie Tran, the chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep, the Eater 38 restaurant in the southwest where Tran melds her Vietnamese upbringing with French techniques, competes on
Top Chef: Portland with a goal of winning $250,000. Tran already made her mark in Las Vegas with The Black Sheep, which won an Eater Award for Restaurant of the Year.
In Episode Four, “Thrown for a Loop,” Tran continues to make her mark on the show where so far, three chefs were eliminated.
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Hands up, utensils down:
Top Chef is back! For its eighteenth season, filmed entirely during the pandemic, the reality cooking show heads to Portland, Oregon, with a cast of 15 executive chefs and restaurant owners from across the country. It’s the first time
Top Chef has ever visited the Rose City, and this season the “cheftestants” will compete in a variety of challenges celebrating Portland’s unique cuisines, ingredients, and flavors.
“Portland is an amazing city filled with iconic indigenous ingredients and a strong sense of community. We’re also front and center in our nation’s current fight for racial equality,”
‘Top Chef’ Portland: Chefs visit restaurants specializing in Pan African cuisine, for education and inspiration
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Gregory Gourdet, at the center head of the table, with, on the right, Kiki Louya, Maria Mazon and Chris Viaud in Top Chef Portland Episode 3, Season 18. (Photo by: David Moir/Bravo)David Moir/Bravo
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The “Top Chef” season based in Portland continued Thursday with an episode that combined an awkwardly obvious product-placement Quickfire challenge, and a far more serious-minded look at food from the African diaspora, with visits to Portland-area restaurants and food carts specializing in cuisine with roots in West Africa, Jamaica, Haiti and Guyana.
Portland Monthly food editor Katherine Chew Hamilton, nor am I
PoMo arts editor Conner Reed; I am not even, though I devoutly wish I was, our magazineâs esteemed food critic Karen Brooks (who, fun fact, was once a judge on the very program of which we are here to speak!). Â
But look, we have a magazine to make, and everyone is busy, and sometimes a mere news editor who happens to have a penchant for reality TV worms her way into the
Top Chef rotation, okay? Â
I used to be a big
Top Chef fan, but somewhere around the Seattle/Boston seasons of 2014/2015, I fell off the bandwagon. But Iâm back, baby, for our very own Portland-set season, and three episodes in, I canât remember why they lost me in the first place.
Jamie Tran Tackles a Layered Dessert and Pan-African Food on the Latest ‘Top Chef: Portland’
The chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep talks about her experience on the show
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David Moir/Bravo
Jamie Tran, the chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep, the Eater 38 restaurant in the southwest where Tran melds her Vietnamese upbringing with French techniques, competes on
Top Chef: Portland with a goal of winning $250,000. Tran already made her mark in Las Vegas with The Black Sheep, which won an Eater Award for Restaurant of the Year.
In Episode Three, Tran continues to make her mark on the show where so far, two chefs were eliminated.