Cúrate’s Chef Katie Button to star in new CBS culinary competition show

The Asheville chef and restaurateur will face off against 15 decorated chefs in the new show hosted by Padma Lakshmi.

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In 2023, Button served as guest chef for the White House state dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Albanese.

Photo via The White House

Huli Sue’s isn’t the only Asheville flavor gracing your TV screen soon. Cúrate chef and co-founder Katie Button will appear on the new CBS series “America’s Culinary Cup,” hosted and produced by culinary queen Padma Lakshmi.

Button will face off against 15 elite chefs — including Michelin-star winners and Bocuse d’Or medalists — as they take on the show’s “ten culinary commandments,” spanning everything from meat and vegetables to sustainability, world cuisine, and culinary science and technology.

“Going head-to-head with some of America’s best chefs was, hands-down, one of the most challenging, humbling, stressful, and deeply rewarding experiences of my life,” Button shared in a social media post.

What’s on the line? The largest cash prize in culinary TV history — a whopping $1 million.

The first episode premieres Wednesday, March 4 at 9:30 p.m.

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