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What is Panzanella?
What is Panzanella?

In Top Chef ™: World All Stars, Chef Victoire put a teaspoon of panzanella salad on top of a Ritz cracker with kumquat and smoked mackerel.


Panzanella is a Tuscan/Umbrian salad of soaked cubes of stale bread, finely chopped onions and tomatoes. It often includes cucumbers, and basil and is dressed with olive oil and vinegar.

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About Top Chef ™

Top Chef ™ is an American reality competition television series which has run since March 2006. The show features professional chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges.


The Top Chef ™ chef-contestants are judged by a counsel of exemplary, world-renowned professional chefs and famous names from the food and wine industry.

The contestants are superb, professional chefs with a huge array of global food skills.


The show is progressive, eliminating one or two chefs each week. Each episode follows a consistent theme with (usually) a Quickfire challenge (short and fun) followed by a more difficult "Elimination Challenge" that is much more intense. The Top Chef ™ Judges Table is where the winners and losers are determined each week.

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