Years after quitting Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi returns with America's Culinary Cup. Here's how her new CBS show differs from ...

"Burnt out" Padma Lakshmi created and hosts CBS' cooking competition "America's Culinary Cup" after leaving "Top Chef." The $1 million prize helped.

Spoiler alert! Twelve chefs from all around America began cooking on the new cooking show ‘America’s Culinary Cup’ in hopes of winning the $1 million prize, but only 11 made it to the next level.

Lakshmi’s answer to those queries is “America’s Culinary Cup,” which she calls “the biggest swing of my professional career.” Unlike “Top Chef,” where she was initially a hired hand and grew into an ...