She won season 14 of the US television reality cooking competition series Top Chef and has owned several Los Angeles-area restaurants.
[4] She had an early interest in cooking and worked as a teacher's assistant at the Epicurean Institute of Los Angeles at age 15.
[5][2] In 2010 they opened Hudson House in Redondo Beach and the Tripel in Playa del Ray,[2] both of which they left or closed during the COVID pandemic.
[10] Williams has appeared twice on the cooking competition show Top Chef and won season 14, after being eliminated and returning from Last Chance Kitchen, competing against Shirley Chung in the finale.
[17] Williamson has participated in food-related philanthropic projects such as No Kid Hungry and World Central Kitchen.