That's not something I had disclosed during the course of my interview (grad school professors ... Kalb, a chef based in Los Angeles who had lost much of his sense of taste and smell after ...

Last year, “Top Chef: Houston” competitor Jackson Kalb revealed he lost his sense of taste after contracting ... at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond have found ...

Now that Kalb's sense of taste is "100% back," he's looking forward to recreating some of the dishes he cooked on the show and subsequently couldn't taste himself. While his culinary background ...

Unfortunately, Achatz lost his sense of taste and smell after a month. “I was like, if I can't taste and I can't talk, how can I be a chef? If I wasn't able to do that passion that I've loved ...