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If you’ve been watching the current
Top Chef season, filmed in Portland, then you might feel like you already know Sara Hauman, one of the season’s current front-runners.
Hauman is head chef at the restaurant at Soter Vineyards, a winery in the Willamette Valley’s town of Carlton that serves ingredients grown at its on-site farm, and she calls Portland home. On
Top Chef, she’s endeared fans and fellow competitors with a zany, slightly self-deprecating sense of humor, and a cooking style that centers beautiful ingredients with deceptively simple techniques and flavors.
“I think [the show] showcased me as being exactly who I am, which is a little bit quirky, a little bit shy,” Hauman told the
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Sara Hauman, head chef at Soter Vineyards in Carlton, works to prepare a dish on Top Chef Portland Episode 7. (Photo: David Moir/Bravo)David Moir/Bravo
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This season, “Top Chef” has stood out not only because it features cooks working with food and ingredients from Portland and beyond. Season 18 of the Bravo series was also filmed during the pandemic, which meant the competing chefs observed safety measures, and guest judges consisted of a rotating panel of “Top Chef” all-stars.
With major tenants, a Houston-first mentality, and big-name chefs at the ready, it holds promise.
By
Timothy Malcolm
5/14/2021 at 9:53am
The Ion and its entrance plaza in Midtown Houston.
When standing on a concourse at The Ion, the 266,000-square-foot building rising above city lots as the first step of many in creating a 16-acre Midtown Houston innovation district, it s easy to imagine all the activity that s expected in the future.
Look up, and Microsoft workers might scramble from one doorway to another. Entrepreneurs and makers from places like TX/RX Labs may converse over coffee while sitting at concourse table, while down on the ground floor, a NASA official might be conducting a keynote speech. In other rooms and open spaces tucked along the perimeter of the building, you could find workshops, team meetings, and what folks in the innovation sector call collisions, or random conversations between people that possibly lead to professional collaboration.
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.
SEASON 18 OFÂ
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