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	• Top Chef The Cookbook The Creators of Top Chef Chronicle Books, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More about the show then the cooking

I really like the colorful organization of the book and the vivid photographs of the dishes, but here's the thing - there's only 66 recipes in the entire book. Now I saw a lot of meals on that show that I'd never want to try, but I was definitely expecting more. And even though I've wanted the recipe for dishes like Dave's truffle mac n' cheese and Sam's spinach and fruit salad, I never had any intention to remake Hung's black chicken and geoduck or that thing Carlos made out of vending machine nuts and soda. It's pretty limited. Subtract from that the ones that are out of my league (the duo of beef that suggests 5-6 hours prep time, or anything involving raw meat for that matter) and the ingredients I can't get at my local supermarket, and that number gets smaller and smaller. What happened to the canned good quickfire? I guess I expected it to be more accessible, and just have more in it.

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Top Chef Cookbook is tops.

I didn't happen upon Top Chef the series until it's second season but once I discovered it, I was hooked. As a person who really enjoys (what we call in my "wherever") "bangin' the pans together, just the word "chef" in it's title drew me in as much as any of the other cooking competition shows would've; given the subject matter. I mean, c'mon...I watch Iron Chef!!! This is not the average food one cooks at home. Who cooks this stuff? Anyway, there was something different about this series. Of course the formula is very similar if not identical to the likes of Top Design or Project Runway in which the contestants live, eat, sleep and go everywhere together. The difference is; not all of us can design, fit, sit down at a sewing machine and whip up what they hope will be fashion's next "new thing" in 20 minutes but (hopefully) many more can sling some food in a pan, cook it up, serve it up, sit down at a table and eat it, right? The complete journey on which the contestants embark really draws the viewer in and the book encompasses all that "stuff" in the guise of a cookbook and it wears it's costume well.

The two cookbooks (there's another with just the "quick-fire challenge" recipes) do not disappoint. They have put together a complete and very satisfying summation of the competition which takes you right back to rooting for you favorite through winning recipes, photos, trivia, back-story and background on all the chefs in addition to the main judges, Tom, Gail and Padma as well as critiques and quotes by many of the guests judges, favorite sayings of the chefs, catch-phrases, who had the craziest hairdos, etc...oh yeah and more recipes. It's more than just a cookbook; it's an intense but enjoyable pictorial through all of the madness of the entire process of becoming Top Chef from beginning to end...and then there are the recipes. You will find it amazing to see just how much information the writers and editors were to include in this book. If you are a fan of the series; buy the book. If you're a fan of the series AND someone who actually "likes" to cook; what the heck are you waiting for? Buy the book. You'll love it.

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Great Recipes!

This book has great recipes! However, most are not for the novice cook and some can take a while. If you can cook then this book has some really tasty treats. The only thing that I don't like about this book is that it wastes too many pages on cast bios and other weird contestant related stuff. A great buy overall.

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Beautiful and tasty dishes, although a few too many diversions for casual fans who just want the recipes

I first borrowed this book from a friend and loved it, so I bought my own copy. As only a casual fan of the show (I don't have Bravo at home, so I've seen an episode of season 6 while house-sitting, and all of seasons 4 and 5 on DVD), I was not enthralled by the episode recaps or the goofy little pages about good Bourdain quotes and matching the cheftestants to their hairstyles. The recipes, though, are amazing. They display astounding creativity and have, in most cases, been simplified enough to attempt them at home. The food photography is drool-worthy, although many of the recipes include pictures not of the food but of the chefs preparing it - again, more useful for a die-hard fan than a casual one. I like reading cookbooks for fun anyway, but this book in particular was one where I sat for hours at a time, reading every word in a kind of fever dream and then having nightmares about misapplying a garnish later. The words and pictures worked beautifully together to create a treasure of a book that belongs on the shelf of every home cook looking to be challenged and inspired.

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Top Chef presents the official companion cookbook to the No. 1 rated food show on cable television! Featuring 100 fabulous recipes from the first three seasons of the show, including dishes from the Elimination Rounds and the Quick-Fire Challenges, Top Chef: The Cookbook invites fans into the hottest kitchen on prime time. In-depth discussions with contestants, judges, and crew reveal the inner workings of the show, and lavish photographs take readers behind-the-scenes into the Top Chef pantry and the competition sites. Handsomely packaged with a canvas cover inspired by the chef's jacket worn by each of the Top Chef contestants, this cookbook will have aspiring culinary contenders reliving classic show moments and relishing new recipes just in time to obsess over Padma's outfits in Season 4.

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