Kristen Kish, an acclaimed chef who gained 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 mentioned final month she could be departing the present, which she had hosted for 19 of its 20 seasons.
Kish, who has hosted a number of different food-related sequence, will take the reins for Season 21, which the community has mentioned will happen in Wisconsin. She’s going to be a part of the meals author Gail Simmons and the 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 respect of serving to to proceed to construct this model,” Kish mentioned in a press release. “It looks like coming house.”
Kish, who was adopted from South Korea and grew up in Kentwood, Mich., attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago. She then spent a decade working at eating places in Boston, rising by way of the ranks to turn out to be the chef de delicacies at Barbara Lynch’s crown jewel restaurant, Menton.
As The New York Occasions reported in 2014, Lynch had inspired Kish and one other younger chef from her restaurant group to compete on “High Chef.”
Kish gained Season 10, and has turn out to be 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 reveals together with “36 Hours,” a Journey Channel present that could be a collaboration with The Occasions; “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend,” and “Eating places on the Finish of the World.”
Ryan Flynn, an NBCUniversal senior vice chairman, mentioned 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 revealed posts on Instagram Tuesday afternoon applauding the selection of Kish.
“She is a wonderful 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 mentioned.
In a press release to The Occasions on Tuesday, Kish added that she was already “overwhelmed by the wonderful outpouring of assist by the followers of ‘High Chef’ embracing this new chapter.”
“I’m desperate to get began!” she mentioned.
Maya Salam contributed reporting.
