Top Chef Portland s Sara Hauman shares her tips for a sustainable kitchen
The Carlton-based chef won both challenges on the show s first episode. She s sharing her tricks for a sustainable kitchen via Skype. Author: Nina Mehlhaf Updated: 9:06 AM PDT April 21, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. Sustainability is an important issue in the food world. Get your ingredients responsibly, with no waste. Top Chef Portland is airing right now Thursdays on Bravo, and a wine country chef is really kicking some butt as a contestant. Chef Sara Hauman is staying mum on the Top Chef Portland winner and how far she made it. Meanwhile, she s back at work and putting on a special, virtual cooking class this Earth Day, all about sustainability.
‘Top Chef’ Portland: Chefs visit restaurants specializing in Pan African cuisine, for education and inspiration
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Gregory Gourdet, at the center head of the table, with, on the right, Kiki Louya, Maria Mazon and Chris Viaud in Top Chef Portland Episode 3, Season 18. (Photo by: David Moir/Bravo)David Moir/Bravo
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The “Top Chef” season based in Portland continued Thursday with an episode that combined an awkwardly obvious product-placement Quickfire challenge, and a far more serious-minded look at food from the African diaspora, with visits to Portland-area restaurants and food carts specializing in cuisine with roots in West Africa, Jamaica, Haiti and Guyana.
As a contestant on the 18th season of the hit Bravo cooking competition
Top Chef, the chef and owner of Stacked Sandwiches and Mama Bird was forced to live in a bubble scenario for eight weeks with 13 other chefs from around the country and since this season was filmed in Portland, that meant being sequestered away practically within walking distance of his own home. It drove me nuts, he says. I was literally driving by my own apartment every day, just being like, I live 10 minutes from this stupid hotel. Why can t I go home and sleep in my own bed?
Nine months on, HBO Max still doesn’t have a strong brand identity.
The streaming service nabbed headlines when it acquired Warner Bros. movies once slated to premiere theatrically – nabbed poison darts, too, from disgruntled filmmakers and movie theatre operators. But the movies limited viewing window meant
Judas and the Black Messiah left the platform right as the film landed six Oscar nominations, and it remains to be seen if the streamer-first strategy will still make sense as movie theatres start to reopen widely.
So is HBO Max more a place for prestige TV, then? Maybe someday, but the streaming service’s shiniest 2020 offerings were HBO original series like
Top Chef’s New Portland Season, Premiering Tonight by Blair Stenvick • Apr 1, 2021 at 10:00 am
Top Chef s first Portland elimination challenge was cooked and served at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). David Moir/Bravo
“Welcome to Portland,” host Padma Lakshmi tells 15 chefs in an industrial kitchen space located somewhere in the Portland metro area, “and season 18 of
Top Chef!”
That’s right: It only took 18 seasons for a food-centric show that has already filmed in locales such as Kentucky, Boston, and Los Angeles (
twice) to make its way up to Portland. For local fans of the hit Bravo reality competition show and I firmly count myself among them filming a season in the Rose City makes perfect sense: Our region is known for having a bustling, creative restaurant scene, as well as a bounty of locally grown, caught, brewed, and fermented ingredients. We’re also home to several former