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AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP | Series Premiere | Full Episode | CBS

From acclaimed Emmy® Award-nominated food expert Padma Lakshmi, AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP features sixteen of the country’s most elite chefs competing in the ultimate culinary arena. With chefs Michael Cimarusti and Wylie Dufresne evaluating taste, creativity, presentation, and technique to determine who advances, who is eliminated and who ultimately masters the show commandments and claims the biggest cash prize in culinary history – $1 million dollars.
AMERICA’S CULINARY CUP airs Wednesdays at 9:30PM ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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39 Comments

  1. Top Chef is still better. Show feels kinda forced and akward so far. It's like…nothing is happening besides being on a big set cooking and doing interviews. There's no culture, no fun.

  2. What happens when you send home the best chef in the first episode? Your audience loses.
    I’m out and good luck Padma in getting great chefs to sign on for season 2.

  3. Overproduced. I'm only interested in the food, I don't care about the chefs' personalities or how many stars they had. If you edited out everything that wasn't 100% focused on the cooking and on shots of the finished dishes you'd have a 20 minute show.

  4. It's crazy that Phillip got the second highest score and still had to go to an elimination round and chefs who got 10+ points less than him got in.

  5. Padma is chopping them down to size. Tell them to make their fav dish,then tell them to omit or lie. Criticism at its finest.😐

  6. Padma promoted the show as something that really allows the best chefs, and ultimately the BEST CHEF, to win!!! She talked about giving them the best equipment and not curved balls. But the first episode was all about a CURVED BALL. When you are sabotaged because the contestants choose whom you compete with, and one of the best chefs was destined to be eliminated (even though he made an EXCEPTIONAL dish!!!), and that SHE herself had a difficult time choosing the better dish. This show was never about allowing the best chef to win. (The chef who made one of the top 2 dishes went home.) It's all about conniving and strategizing… not unlike Survivors or Big Brother. Very disappointed. Padma should not have made that grand promise that this was really about cooking. Based on the first episode, Top Chef has a lot more INTEGRITY.

  7. I rooted for Beverly when she was on Top Chef. I was so angry when she was bullied by that other chef, and I've been so happy for her that she has been very successful with her career. However, I found her reaction a bit insensitive and self-centered when she beat Sol. Everyone else expressed kindness to their opponent who just lost to them. Beverly just laughed, jumped up and down in a very egotistical way, and totally ignored Sol.

  8. These are true top chefs. The performance expectations are greater than Top Chef.

    Addendum: When Padma entered, her opening statement should have been "Hello, award-winning and distinguished chefs!"

    Also, I like the staggering of the competitors. Having dishes sit and wait to be judged has always irked me with other culinary competitions. Overall, I like this 'American' format and hope it has a long run.

  9. I was screaming at Russell when I saw Chris was going to make a spicy Curry Chowder against his regular Red Chowder. Everyone knows Padma loves spicy curry!

  10. Since I don’t follow chefs beyond seeing them in competition shows, I don’t recognize many of them, perhaps it took a million dollar prize to get some of them to finally participate in a TV series. It was also news to me to hear Buddha getting his star, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised after winning top chef twice.

    Addendum: I love Parma, but the thumbnail for the show is ridiculous with her looking like she’s doing a model shoot, lol. Wylie looks really different from the last time I saw him competing, and is it just me but whoever did his makeup made him look like a grandma, too much blush and lipstick?!?

  11. Padma is great, but yet another chef competition where the emphasis is on "cut-throat competition" . I love the GBBO precisely because the contestants aren't cut throat competitors. I'm bored with American cooking competitions. Too much contrived drama.

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