Natalie Portman on 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.