Who is Top Chef contestant Dawn Burrell?
Katrina Schollenberger, SEO Reporter
Updated: 21:58 ET, Jul 1 2021
THE Top Chef finale airs July 1 on Bravo.
The three finalists will be competing for a chance to win $250,000.
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Who is Top Chef contestant Dawn Burrell?
Dawn Burrell is a former Olympic athlete who competed for Team USA in the long jump at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
“Every positive trait that I have, I can attribute it to being an athlete,” Burrell told Yahoo Sports. “My ability to stay in it, to embrace the pressure that is in that moment, all comes from my career as an athlete.”
In the main competition, it s time to feed frontline workers.
By
Timothy Malcolm
5/14/2021 at 12:39pm
Chef Dawn Burrell cooks for frontline workers.
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TOP CHEF IS HERE, and two Houston chefs are competing for the ultimate prize ($250,000 and other things) in Portland, Oregon. We re keeping our eyes glued on Dawn Burrell (who s soon to open Late August) and Sasha Grumman (who has a great focaccia hustle) as they battle each week (Thursday nights on Bravo).
The season continued with episode seven Thursday night. How did our chefs do?
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How Dawn Did
We start the episode with the return of chef Jamie Tran, who won her way back into the competition through
On a thoughtful episode of
Top Chef, with competitors exploring the African diaspora, Dawn Burrell came out on top. Yup, Chef Burrell won the Elimination Challenge.
For the Quickfire Challenge, the chefs had to make . a layered dessert (save your groans, please) using sponsored product Talenti gelato (again, save those groans). Burrell went for a parfait of toasted rice mousse, blackberry caramel, and black sesame crumble. Judge Carrie Baird said, Thank you, good job. That s what we got; she finished somewhere in the middle.Â
Then came the Elimination Challenge, for which the chefs headed into the city and visited a number of pan-African restaurants to better acclimate them with African cuisine. At Akadi PDX, Burrell and chefs had dishes like cassava and fish with peppers, onions, and sides of spicy sauce. At Bake on the Run, a Guyanese eatery, they had bites like bacalao (Portuguese salt cod stew).
Check out the preview and let me know if you see any familiar faces.
Two of the contestants on the show are from right here in Houston.
Chef Dawn Burrell and Chef Sasha Grumman will be among the fifteen chefs from around the country to compete for the title of Top Chef.
Chef Dawn Burrell isn t just a great cook, she s also an Olympian!
Dawn was a Track and Field athlete and has represented the USA in many events around the world.
Sports aren t her only passion, she also loves to cook and she s really good at it.
You can learn more about Chef Burrell HERE.