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Nathan Myhrvold Will Be a Judge on Top Chef

The Modernist Cuisine creator will help send someone packing on January 4.

Allecia Vermillion
Author: Allecia Vermillion
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Things are about to get modernist.

Be still my heart. Resident genius Nathan Myhrvold, he who masterminded the Modernist Cuisine tome out of his lab in Bellevue, will be a guest judge on Top Chef this season. According to the Modernist Cuisine blog, Myhrvold’s epidose will air January 4, 2012. The post claims that “this was the best business excuse that allowed him to check out some of East Texas’s best barbecue. Always thinking about the bottom line, that Nathan Myhrvold. Side note: You don’t often see the blog of a former Microsoft chief technology officer link to people.com, where Top Chef judge and resident sex symbol Padma Lakshmi praises Myhrvold as “one of the world’s foremost experts on paleontology and he’s a barbecue expert.”

Top Chef watchers, commence guessing what sort of wacky competition Myhrvold will be judging. Too bad this season seems to lack a Richard Blais-esque contestant who is obsessed with liquid nitrogen.




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.