SPOILER alert: This story contains spoilers from the season finale of “Top Chef.”
The utensils are down, the knives are packed, and “Top Chef” has crowned its latest winner. Season 21 began in Wisconsin before decamping for the Caribbean, where contestants visited Curaçao and Aruba between cooking meals on a massive cruise ship. In the final episode, Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller and Danny Garcia were each tasked with cooking the best meal of their lives in the hope that alumna and new host Kristen Kish would declare them the latest Top Chef.
Ultimately, Garcia took the prize. The New Yorker and fine-dining veteran delivered a consistently strong performance, crafting precise and cerebral dishes out of ingredients that could be as humble as a carrot. His four-course finale meal was centered around the theme of first food memories while centering local Caribbean produce, progressing from a leche de tigre ceviche with breadfruit tuile to a piragua, a Puerto Rican shaved-ice dessert that called back to Garcia’s childhood in the five boroughs.
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