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Paducah's Sara Bradley to Compete on 'Top Chef'

Paducah's Sara Bradley to Compete on 'Top Chef'
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Oct. 18, 2018 | PADUCAH
By West Kentucky Star Staff Oct. 18, 2018 | 10:14 PM | PADUCAH
A Paducah chef is tasked with defending the honor of the Bluegrass state on the Bravo Channel's 16th season of "Top Chef."

Sara Bradley of the freight house is the only Kentucky chef among the 15 competitors this season, which premieres Thursday, December 6 at 8:00 pm. She may feel she has a little "home field advantage," because most of the competition will take place in Kentucky. 

Chefs from cities big and small will visit the culinary scenes of Louisville, Lexington and Lake Cumberland, before traveling to Macau, China for the finale. 

Bradley's freight house is Paducah’s first farm-to-table restaurant, serving traditional southern flavors with a modern twist. On Facebook, she said she is, "proud to represent Paducah and Kentucky on the upcoming season of Top Chef! They're about to find out why it's #betterinthebluegrass!"

You can follow Bradley through the competition on her Facebook page (see link below).

Host Padma Lakshmi and head judge Tom Colicchio, along with Graham Elliot, Nilou Motamed and Gail Simmons, will keep the chefs on their game with a season full of curveballs, double eliminations and the earliest and first ever three-team Restaurant Wars. The cheftestants work to impress the judges and notable guests as they bet it all at Kentucky’s famous racetracks, Churchill Downs and Keeneland, cook for Laila Ali at the Muhammad Ali Center, and compete in a buzzer beater showdown for roaring fans at the University of Kentucky’s Rupp Arena with Basketball Hall of Famer Coach Calipari. 

At Maker’s Mark’s iconic bourbon distillery, the chefs celebrate two Kentucky mainstays as they are tasked with putting their spin on classic dishes including burgoo, Benedictine, hoe cakes and dumplings. In addition, the blindfold taste test is back as the chefs must identify a variety of herbs and spices for a KFC-inspired Quickfire. 

Emmy-Award Winner Lena Waithe is on hand for a Quickfire challenge reimagining the Hot Brown and “Below Deck’s” Captain Lee Rosbach and Captain Sandy Yawn join the cheftestants for a houseboat challenge in Lake Cumberland.  

On a road trip to Nashville, the chefs hit the Grand Ole Opry stage dishing up delectable delights to musicians Hunter Hayes and Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill, along with his wife, model Lily Aldridge. And for the first time ever, the chefs grow their own produce and must use their harvests in one of the final Kentucky challenges. 

The top five chefs then travel to Macau, China, to the heart of fusion-food, to battle it out for the title of “Top Chef.”   

Here is the full list of Cheftestants:

•Eric Adjepong - Washington, DC  
•Sara Bradley - Paducah, KY
•Kelsey Barnard Clark - Dothan, AL 
•Edmund “Eddie” Konrad - Philadelphia, PA
•Pablo Lamon - Miami Beach, FL
•Natalie Maronski - Philadelphia, PA
•Michelle Minori - San Francisco, CA
•Nini Nguyen - Brooklyn, NY
•Brandon Rosen - San Mateo, CA
•Kevin Scharpf - Dubuque, IA
•Caitlin Steininger - Cincinnati, OH
•Justin Sutherland - St. Paul, MN
•David Viana – Asbury Park, NJ
•Adrienne Wright - Boston, MA
•Brian Young – Boston, MA  

You may watch the preview video below:

On the Net:

Chef Sara Bradley Facebook page
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