Clint Farr

Blog written by Juneau's Libby Bakalar is taking off, beyond the city and beyond Alaska.

The season finale of Bravo's "Top Chef" show, broadcast earlier this year, included a shoot in Juneau. Alaskan Clint Farr spent nine days working on the show as a production assistant.

Now 40 and with a family, I was young enough to atone for an act of cowardice more than two decades ago and actually complete Mount Marathon, Alaska's famed mountain race.

My stint on the "Top Chef" set in Southeast Alaska was all about a brush with Hollywood and Padma: Professional, poised, pretty, possessor of a perfect palette. Padma.