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Culinary expert, food writer, Top Chef judge, and our July guest editor, Gail Simmons, answers our 21 questions.
- When I get up in the morning I think… I wish I was still sleeping.
- The item of clothing I’m currently wearing the most is… a new Opening Ceremony bag I just got as a treat to myself.
- If my days had one extra hour in them I’d… eat breakfast twice.
- The best thing about being on Top Chef is… traveling.
- My least favorite thing about being on Top Chef is… traveling — being away from home!
- The best guest judge ever was… Foo Fighers, we had so much fun because it was such a departure from any of the judges we've had before.
- I’d love to have this person be on the show… Drew Barrymore – she’s into food and wine and I think she’d be really fun to have on set.
- My favorite restaurant is… can't possibly say! But at this moment I'm eating a lot of Vietnamese.
- The city with the best food is… New York, but it's so cliche! Besides that, Tokyo.
- The city with the worst food is… pretty hard to get bad food in a big city these days; you just have to look for it.
- I never travel without… dark chocolate.
- The last thing I Googled… a snow ball shop in New Orleans.
- If I could have dinner with anyone it would be… Marie Antoinette because she ate well and loved dessert.
- On a typical Saturday night… I have dinner with friends.
- My guilty pleasure is… I try not to feel guilty about anything, but I have a weakness for really spicy chicken wings.
- My beauty essentials include… La Prairie Caviar Eye Cream, YSL Touche Eclat, NARS lip gloss, Armani foundation when I do TV, and Armani mascara.
- When I’m looking to de-stress I… get massage.
- When I was first asked to be on Top Chef I thought… how am I going to explain this to my mother because it was 2005 and reality TV wasn’t what it is today.
- People might be surprised to learn that… I tap dance.
- The one luxury item I’m dying to splurge on is… the Big Green Egg; it's a big outdoor grill.
- The best piece of advice I ever got was… keep your mouth shut so you learn how to listen, but open it enough so you learn how to taste.
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