What Indian-born American author was a judge in "Top Chef: Charleston"?
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Top Chef (season 14) Top Chef: Charleston is the fourteenth season of the American reality television series "Top Chef". The season was announced by Bravo on October 13, 2016, which premiered on December 1, 2016, and concluded on March 2, 2017. Filming initially took place in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning in May 2016, while the season's final episodes were filmed in areas across Mexico, including Guadalajara and the Yucatán Peninsula. "Top Chef: Charleston" featured eight new contestants competing against eight returning contestants from previous seasons. "MasterChef" and "Top Chef Masters" alumnus Graham Elliot debuted as a recurring judge, alongside returning judges Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons. In the season finale, "" runner-up Brooke Williamson was declared the Top Chef, defeating "" finalist Shirley Chung. "Top Chef: Seattle" finalist Sheldon Simeon received the Fan Favorite Award, marking his second Fan Favorite win.
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Padma Lakshmi Padma Lakshmi (] ; born Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan; September 1, 1970) is an Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer. Her debut cookbook "Easy Exotic" won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program "Top Chef" since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. In 2010, "Top Chef" won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. Her debut memoir "Love, Loss and What We Ate" was released on International Women's Day, March 8, 2016.
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Pamposh Bhat Pamposh Bhat (born 19 September, Bhopal, India) is a New Delhi-based environmentalist and award winning writer. Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work ""Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein" (In search of the Horizon)".
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Abha Dawesar Abha Dawesar (born January 1, 1974, in New Delhi, India) is an Indian novelist writing in English. Dawesar is a Harvard graduate who was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fiction fellowship. She currently lives in New York City.
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Saumya Balsari Saumya Balsari is a British Indian author. Balsari has been named one of Britain's leading South Asian women by redhotcurry.com. She is currently researching her third novel as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies. Her second book was "Summer of Blue", a novel for young adults. It was published in 2013 as an ebook (Arcadia Books) and paperback. Her first novel, "The Cambridge Curry Club", is the 2010 winner of the first ever Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade.  The book was selected at Cambridge Wordfest 2012 by Oxygen Books, City Picks, for a public reading of Cambridge's finest writing.Cambridge Wordfest 2012 The title was also chosen for The National Year of Reading and by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for its 2008 A Book a Day project in May. Balsari's writing has been favourably compared by Alexander McCall Smith to that of Booker Prize Winners Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Other eminent reviewers of her work include the well-known actress and author Meera Syal and television comedy writer Ronald Wolfe (Writing Comedy).
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Anand Jon Anand Jon Alexander (born November 28, 1976), also known as Anand Jon is an Indian-born American celebrity fashion designer who appeared on "America's Next Top Model" and was listed in "Newsweek"' s ”Who’s Next in 2007?”. In November 2008, Anand Jon was convicted at the Los Angeles court Court on one count of rape and multiple counts of lesser sexual offenses. He was sentenced to 59 years to life. Anand Jon was facing similar charges in New York, but before the trial began in 2013, the New York prosecutors had independently dismissed almost all the charges in their case which featured almost the same witnesses and charges as the overlapping Los Angeles case. Anand Jon subsequently accepted a "time served" plea for one of the initial 49 counts in exchange for New York prosecutors turning over materials he has since proceeded to use in a Writ of Habeas Corpus seeking relief from his California convictions.
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Martha Rose Shulman Martha Rose Shulman is an American cookbook author, cooking teacher and food columnist for "The New York Times". Her father was author Max Shulman.
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Mehboob Khan (chef) Mehboob Khan better known as Chef Mehboob is a Pakistani celebrity chef, a television personality and a cooking expert. He is famously known for his cooking shows "Zauq Zindagi" and "Good Healthy Life" on ARY Zauq. He is also an author of cookbook "Food for Life" which garnered him great attention as a health-food expert. Currently he is serving as a Judge in cooking competition "MasterChef Pakistan (Pakistani version of World-renowned MasterChef)".
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Santha Rama Rau Santha Rama Rau (24 January 1923 – 21 April 2009) was an Indian-born American writer.
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Mira Jacob Mira Jacob is an Indian American author known for her novel "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing", a book about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and how his seeing spirits affects his family.
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Gail Omvedt Gail Omvedt is an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. She is a prolific writer and has published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt has been involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, oncologist, and author best known for his 2010 book, "". He studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford, and an M.D. from Harvard University.
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Moorthy Muthuswamy Moorthy Muthuswamy is an Indian-American nuclear physicist, writer and author.
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Rashmi Bansal Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer, entrepreneur and a youth expert.As of 2016, she is the author of seven books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish", traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 copies, a record for books published in India.
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Swati Chaturvedi Swati Chaturvedi is an award-winning Indian journalist. She has worked for various Indian newspapers and channels, like The Statesman, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Tribune, NDTV.com, DailyO and The Wire. She has also published two books; her first book is "Daddy's Girl"; her second book is titled "I Am A Troll".
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Karen A. Page Karen Page (born May 8, 1962, in Warren, Michigan) along with her husband Andrew Dornenburg, is a James Beard Award-winning author of a number of culinary-themed books. Among their books are "Becoming a Chef" (1995; 2003, 2nd ed.), "Culinary Artistry" (1996), "Dining Out" (1998), "Chef's Night Out" (2001), "The New American Chef" (2003), "What to Drink With What You Eat" (2006), "The Flavor Bible" (2008), "The Food Lover's Guide to Wine" (2011), and "The Vegetarian Flavor Bible" (2014).
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Andi Dorfman Andi Dorfman is an American television personality and former Assistant District Attorney from Fulton County, Georgia. She is notable for being a contestant on the eighteenth season of "The Bachelor", and the lead on tenth season of "The Bachelorette". She became famous for walking out on bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis in the ninth episode of "The Bachelor". She became the first former attorney to appear as "The Bachelorette". She is the author of the "New York Times" Bestseller, "It's Not Okay."
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Lakshmi Krishnamurti Lakshmi Krishnamurti (1 August 1925 – 14 June 2009) was an Indian author and politician. She is the daughter of Indian independence activist S. Satyamurti.
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Taste in Translation Taste in Translation is an American Cooking show series produced by Leopard Films that currently airs on the Cooking Channel. The series is hosted by Aarti Sequeira, an Indian chef and television personality, who is best known as the winner of the sixth season of Food Network's reality television show, "The Next Food Network Star". In the series, Aarti searches for the most popular dishes from around the world and takes an in depth look at the history and cultural significance in the dishes she tastes. Each episode has a different dish theme, such as a barbecue or a birthday theme for an episode. The series premiered on January 4, 2013.
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Mallika Chopra Mallika Chopra (born July 24, 1971) is an American author and businesswoman.
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Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently Professor of Management at the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University in Morgantown in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Prior to this, she was at other universities including Massey University in New Zealand and at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. Born in Mumbai, India, she received a bachelor's degree in Politics at Elphinstone College, Mumbai and then went on to get graduate degrees from various American universities including a Master's from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Political Science, and New York University, where she received Master's and PhD degrees in International Business and Strategy from the Stern School of Business. Besides the USA, Dr. Haley has lived and worked in Mexico, Singapore, Australia, China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Finland, Russia, New Zealand and several other countries.
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Ashley Lobo Ashley Lobo is an Indian choreographer and was also one of the three judges for the Indian reality dance talent show "India's Dancing Superstar" on Star Plus.