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Natalie Portman on Top Chef

Vegan actress Natalie Portman guest stars on tonight’s episode of Top Chef.

Natalie Portman is tonight's special guest on the reality cooking competition Top Chef, which airs on Bravo. The contestants' task is to cook for Portman, a long-time vegetarian, now vegan. The episode preview begins with the crew of chefs racing through a steakhouse to survey the meat they might use in their challenge, but everything changes when Portman describes her dietary preferences. The actress recently wrote a review of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, a book she credits for her shift to a vegan diet. "Factory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age," says Portman.

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