Tag: Food & Drink

All 32 NFL teams as Halloween candy: 2023 edition

Some teams give you a delicious Halloween treat. Others are gross and stick to your mouth.

Here at For The Win, a very serious place of business, we often have hearty staff debates. About anything, really, but especially food. Simply mentioning that you enjoy a certain salad or cookie or how you take your coffee will turn many of us feral. We’ll react viscerally, baffled that someone, somehow, enjoys a different texture, flavor, mix, what have you.

So in the Halloween spirit, smack dab in the middle of the 2023 NFL season, we decided to compare all 32 NFL teams to a specific Halloween candy (or any candy otherwise). And you won’t be surprised to learn that we professionals immediately hounded someone (this fair but courageous writer) for daring to have a dissenting opinion about chocolate and fruity gold.

One might even say such a pack mentality is a little spooky. Dear reader, this is the cross I bear for my colleagues.

Below, you will find the very scientific candy consensus we came to for every NFL team this Halloween. Some team choices and blurbs are obvious. They are the evergreen peanut butter cups of professional football. They are a treat. Others, unfortunately, stick in our craw in the worst way, necessitating whole globs of water to wash away the disgusting taste out of our mouths. You only wish they were a trick.

Note: The list is in alphabetical order, not by ranking of what is and isn’t delicious.

Former Top Chef winner Kristen Kish succeeds Padma Lakshmi as host, and the show is headed to Wisconsin

Bravo’s Top Chef will have a new host for the first time in 19 seasons.

A former winner of the popular Bravo competition cooking show Top Chef will move into the host’s chair.

Kristen Kish, an accomplished chef and the victor of the show’s 10th season, will become its next host. Kish – who will need some practice saying, “please pack your knives and go,” – succeeds longtime host Padma Lakshmi, who is moving on to pursue other ambitions after 19 seasons.

Kish, 39, will begin her hosting duties with Season 21, which will be set in Wisconsin – a return to the U.S. after Season 20’s World All-Stars. Bravo announced the news about Kish and Wisconsin on Tuesday. Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio will be back too, and Kish will join them at the judges’ table.

In a statement, Kish said:

“Top Chef is where I started my journey – first as a competing chef, then a guest judge and now as host I have the honor of helping to continue to build this brand. I’m thrilled to sit alongside Gail and Tom as we get to know new incredible chefs and see what they cook up. It feels like coming home.”

Kish is a native of South Korea and grew up in Michigan. She became a fan favorite after winning Season 10 in Seattle. That season – which concluded in 2013 – Kish won four elimination challenges and was then eliminated in episode 11. But then she won five straight rounds of Last Chance Kitchen to earn her way back on the show, where she triumphed over Brooke Williamson in the finale. Kish was the first contestant – and still just one of three – to survive Last Chance Kitchen and then go on to win the show.

Choosing Kish was the obvious and smart decision by the showrunners. Not only is Kish a talented chef, and not only does she know Top Chef inside and out – having won it and served as a guest judge – but she’s gotten a lot of reps hosting food-related television shows. She co-hosted 36 Hours on the Travel Channel, was a host on Netflix’s Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, and was the star of the National Geographic mini-series Restaurants at the End of the World. She has also been a contestant on TruTV’s Fast Foodies.

Since winning Top Chef, Kish has also opened her own restaurant in Austin, Texas, and written a cookbook.

A premiere date for Season 21 hasn’t been announced yet, but it will feature Madison and Milwaukee.

It’s the first time Top Chef has prominently based a season in the Midwest — or, to use a sports reference: Big Ten country — since 2008, when Season 4 was set in Chicago.