KRISTEN KISH was born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted by a family in Kentwood, Michigan, at the age of four months. After attending Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Chicago, she worked for Barbara Lynch in Boston, first at Stir and then at Menton. Kish won season ten of Bravo’s Top Chef in 2012, after originally being eliminated and then cooking her way back into the competition through the show’s Last Chance Kitchen online series. She was most recently the cohost of Travel Channel’s 36 Hours.
