‘Pack Your Knives’

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Forty-seven-year-old gentle giant Keith Rhodes of Wilmington, North Carolina, was the first official casualty of Top Chef Texas. In last night’s episode, much was made about Keith’s buying precooked shrimp for a Quinceañera celebration, but in a phone interview, Keith explains it wasn’t so much the shrimp but his choice of flour tortillas that proved his undoing—not to mention a few other chefs and a guest judge.

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