Top Chef All-Stars Winner Melissa King

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Top Chef recently crowned Melissa King the winner of Season 17 after an epic showdown in Italy. As a returning finalist from Season 12, Melissa competed among the fiercest group of All Stars yet. She snagged both the $250,000 prize and the Fan Favorite award. It was a powerful moment for Melissa, a freelance chef and proud representative of both the LGBTQ+ and Asian-American communities. Melissa joins us to talk about her win, how she’s changed in the six years between her two Top Chef appearances, and how she’s building her business with intention and community in mind. We also talk about those small-batch sauces of hers that sold out in literally two minutes.

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0:00.0	Hey, boys and girls are all by herda.
0:10.2	Whole world chicken, drinking, baby, and we're on fire at.
0:17.7	Hey, everyone.
0:18.9	Welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb, the number one female-focused food podcast in the universe.
0:23.8	I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Brooklyn, New York.
0:28.0	I'm so excited about today's guest.
0:30.2	It's Melissa King, who just last week was crowned this season's winner of Top Chef All-Stars.
0:35.8	It was her second time competing on Top Chef, and we're so
0:38.5	proud of her on this major milestone. Melissa has really carved out a unique path for herself,
0:44.0	and she's going to tell us all about it. We also talk about identity, and how that's changed for her
0:49.3	in the six years between her two Top Chef appearances. In honor of Pride Month, Melissa posted a beautiful statement
0:55.5	on Instagram about her identity, and I encourage everyone to read it. I'd like to thank Breyer's
1:01.1	Carb Smart Smart for sponsoring today's episode. We appreciate your support so much, and I appreciate
1:06.0	all those Carb Smart bars you sent me. The Radio Cherrybaum Summer Tour is underway, virtually, of course,
1:12.7	the tour is inspired by Padma Lakshmi's new TV show, Taste the Nation, and we're hosting
1:17.3	panel discussions that go behind the scenes and deeper into the conversations started in each episode,
1:23.1	with the crew and women who appeared on the show. We had wonderful discussions on Zoom this week
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