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Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of the winner of Top Chef Season 21.

Bravo’s Top Chef Season 21 has ended, and the culinary competition has a brand new winner.

Daniel Jacobs, Savannah Miller, and Danny Garcia made it to the finals, hoping to win the grand prize of $250,000. Season 21 took place in Wisconsin, with the two-part finale in the Caribbean.

Ultimately, it was Garcia who took the Season 21 crown. The contestant also earned an additional $53,000 in prize money, the most of any chef in a season, that he won throughout the challenges.

“I’m honored to be the first Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Muslim Top Chef,” Garcia said. “I take immense pride in the dishes I’ve presented during this competition as they embody my evolution as a chef.”

He continued, “I dedicate this win to my mentor, the late Chef Jamal James Kent, whose steadfast support, leadership, guidance, and...

The “Top Chef” final four contestants left Wisconsin and flew down to Curaçao last week in “Set Sail,” and they promptly boarded a cruise ship for their final challenges. In the end, Savannah Miller and Laura Ozyilmaz were the bottom two chefs, with Laura ultimately eliminated and Savannah eking out a spot in the final three with Danny Garcia and Dan Jacobs. None of them had their best day in the kitchen that day, but that doesn’t matter now. It all comes down to one final cook to win a feature in Food and Wine magazine; an appearance at the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado; and $250,000 in prize money. So what went down in the season 21 finale “Cruising to a Win”?

The finale begins with a stop in Aruba, where the final three are greeted by host Kristen Kish and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons. “It all boils down to this,...

Season 21 of “Top Chef” premieres on Wednesday, March 20, with 15 brand new, talented cheftestants competing in Wisconsin for the title and the grand prize of $250,000, a feature in Food and Wine Magazine and an appearance at the 41st annual Food and Wine Classic in Aspen. Scroll down to learn about all of this year’s competitors.

There are big changes this season. First and foremost, longtime host Padma Lakshmi has stepped down from the cooking competition and has been replaced by season 10 “Top Chef” champion Kristen Kish. But judges Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio are back. Over the course of the season they will be joined by judging and dining panelists who include Dane Baldwin, Charlie Berens, Ryan Braun, Paul Bartolotta, Dominique Crenn, Curtis Duffy, Clea Duvall, Andrew Kroeger, Emeril Lagasse, Hunter Lewis, Bricia Lopez, Tory Miller, Itaru Nagano, Carrie Nahabedian, Joe Papach, Shaina Papach, Justin Pichetrungsi, Sofia Roe, Sean Sherman,...

Rebecca Halpern on Chef Charlie Trotter: “He loved very challenging films like Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog. And he loved books by people like Ayn Rand, which are not that popular frankly.” Photo: courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

Rebecca Halpern’s revealing and savoury Love, Charlie: The Rise And Fall Of Chef Charlie Trotter features on-camera in-person interviews with Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Grant Achatz, Norman Van Aken, Carrie Nahabedian, Rick Bayless, Della Gossett, Michelle Gayer, David LeFevre, Guillermo Tellez, Reggie Watkins, Rahm Emanuel, Gordon Sinclair, Art Smith, farmer Lee Jones, and Trotter’s ex-wife Lisa Ehrlich.

Rebecca is also the producer of Danny Lee’s Who is Stan Smith?, executive produced by LeBron James.

Rebecca Halpern with Anne-Katrin Titze on Charlie Trotter’s: “His vegetarian dishes were beautiful and multi-layered and nuanced and remarkable.”

I spoke with Chef Mauro Colagreco (featured in Vérane Frédiani and Franck Ribière’s...