‘Top Chef’ Fan Favorite Has a Terminal Illness But Is Making the Most of Her Final Days

A Tactical Illness

Fatima Ali cancer
IMAGE BY: Instagram/padmalakshmi

Noma is a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. Between 2010 and 2012, and then again in 2014, Restaurant magazine named it the best restaurant in the world. Ali leveraged her terminal diagnosis by sliding into Noma’s DMs for a shot at a table. And it worked.

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