Nini Nguyen

“Top Chef” Kentucky begins as fifteen of the country’s finest chefs are off to the races at Churchill Downs for the ride of their lives.

Kentucky-based Top Chef alum Ed Lee drops by for a Quickfire that’s part trivia, part culinary creativity.

This week the chefs honor the late, great Pulitzer-Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold.

Padma gets a real rise out of the chefs when she tasks them to make a Quickfire dish without any all-purpose flour.

Tom ambushes the sleeping chefs and challenges them to reap what they sowed and make a dish focused on their garden harvest.

The chefs are challenged to a taco throwdown for Danny Trejo; for the Quickfire, the only sharp tool they can use is a machete.