-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Savannah hive, rise up! It's a good week to be a Savannah stan. Unfortunately, it's not a good week to be a Kevin stan, but we'll get to that later. This was a wonderful episode prioritizing Native and indigenous cuisine , as well as eschewing the usual ingredients like wheat flour, sugar and dairy , plus pork, chicken and beef, which allowed for some chefs to truly shine —like Savannah, plus Dan and Soo — while others struggled (pretty much everyone else).

Related "Top Chef" goes "back to the good land," celebrating Native and indigenous ingredients Danny also continued his outright dominance in the Quick Fire — I figured he'd win the instant I saw him juicing cranberries — and I think the shift of Gail and Tom now joining and judging all Quick Fires going forward, which will factor in all elimination decisions, was a long time coming. It only makes sense. At this point in the competition, there should be a cumulative aspect to important decisions like that.

Without further ado, here are the other biggest takeaways of this week's episode. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism 01 The cranberry QuickFire was great. I loved how Savannah used cranberries in so many different iterations in her dish, as well as Danny's aforementioned juiced cranberry component.

Also, the amount of money Danny has already accrued from his multiple wins is outrageous. In addition, the whole chal.