Career
Talbot returned to Top Chef for the episode "Four Star All Stars" with Elia Aboumrad, Marcel Vigneron, and Ilan Hall. Talbot and the other three were defeated by Season 1"s Tiffani Faison, Harold Dieterle, and Stephen Asprinio. Talbot received his education from Johnson & Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina.
After working his way up to production chef at Dean and DeLuca, he worked under James Burns, the acclaimed head chef at Charleston’s J. Bistro.
In New York City, he has held the position of executive chef at several restaurants, such as the Black Duck, Williamsburg Cafe, and Punch. Talbot has since opened the restaurant The Surf Lodge.
In 2015 Sam opened the Pig + Poet in Camden, Master of Engineering. This summer his new restaurant Pretty Southern is set to open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Talbot"s book The Sweet Life: Diabetes without Boundaries is a memoir and a cook book with recipes for diabetics.
Sam also started a non profit called Beyond Type 1, along with Nick Jonas, Sarah Lucas and Juliet de Baubigny in 2015.
Talbot is a diabetic and wears an insulin pump attached to his legal In July 2008, Talbot became engaged to Colombian model and t-shirt designer Paola Guerrero. Following the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Talbot worked with Beastie Boy Mike Doctorate to run a food truck delivering over 20,000 meals to people affected by the storm"s devastation.