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Who Is Tristen Epps? All You Need To Know About The Top Chef Season 22 Winner
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Here is everything you need to know about Tristen Epps, who bagged the winning trophy in season 22 of Top Chef.
Season 22 of the reality show Top Chef, featuring several aspiring chefs competing for the coveted title, has come to an end, and we got the winner – Tristen Epps. He has showcased impeccable culinary skills, impressing the judges to creatively whip up every storm to escape the elimination rounds. Throughout the entire season featuring 14 episodes, he has won hearts of the judges and foodies around the world.
On the final episode of the cooking reality show Top Chef season 2, Tristen Epps was crowned the winner after competing against two other finalists – Bailey Sullivan and Shuai Wang. Making his fans proud, Epps prepared a four-course meal to ace the final challenge of the game. Additionally, it was the progressive meaning of his dishes and the Afro-Caribbean roots which got the likes from judges, including Richard Blais and Gregory Goudet.
Talking about his extraordinary dish that helped Epps to win the season, it featured his mission to 'un-colonise" food. As per a report by Fandomwire, for the first course, he prepared monkfish served alongside pickled turnips and baccalà mbongo. Following this, the second course featured Pollo 'dorengo" with shrimp toast and shellfish jus, the third dish-oxtail Milanese with curry butter and bone marrow gremolata, and the final and fourth one was a tropical root vegetable cake with plantain cream and cassareep sorbet. All of them were incredibly thoughtful and prepared to leave a mark among food enthusiasts around the world.
Who Is Tristen Epps?
Coming to Tristen Epps, who won the 22nd season of Bravo's Top Chef, the maestro hails from Trinidad, a country in the Caribbean.
Although he bagged the winning trophy, mid-way during the show, he had already given up his dream after the passing of his father. Nevertheless, he gained courage, and dedicated his victory to his late dad. After his win, he reportedly said, 'I didn't do it for me; I did it for so many people. Somebody believed in me enough on their deathbed," leaving his fans moved.
Right from his childhood, Epps had a liking towards cooking, and while he travelled the world with his military mother, he developed cooking as his passion. Ahead of appearing in Top Chef, Epps has also appeared in a number of cooking reality TV shows. Talking about his professional education, he has a degree in Culinary Arts and Food & Beverage Industry Management, which he pursued from Johnson & Wales in Charlotte, New York.
Following gaining valuable cooking lessons, he participated in ABC's The Taste in 2014 and a number of series, including All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate, The Taste, Chopped and also Top Chef in 2006.
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