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'Top Chef - The Quickfire Cookbook' - Cookbook Spotlight

Posted Oct 23rd 2009 2:00PM by Kat Kinsman
Filed under: Cookbook Spotlight

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'Top Chef - The Quickfire Cookbook'
by Emily Miller with foreword by Padma Lakshmi
Chronicle Books -- 2009
Buy it on Amazon

It's Padma's world. The rest of us just cook in it -- just mostly without a gigantic LED countdown clock, a dozen cleaver-wielding competitors jockeying for prep space and a mandate to make haute nibbles from the contents of a 7-Eleven's snack aisle. But if that's what cremes your brulee and you haven't the tats, 'tude and temerity to audition for competitive reality TV, you can live vicariously through this book.

Or you can just go online and save the $29.95.

See what we tested and find out whether the book's worth buying after the jump.

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Top Chef Trivia

Posted Sep 1st 2009 4:25PM by Slashfood Editor
Filed under: Quizzes

Do you have what it takes to master this Top Chef quiz? Or will you be asked to pack your knives and go? Find out below.

Top Chef Trivia

In Season 5, who stepped in as a semi-permanent judge when Gail Simmons took time off to honeymoon?

Anthony Bourdain
Wylie Dufresne
Eric Ripert
Toby Young

Who was the first guest judge of season four?

Rocco DiSpirito
Anthony Bourdain
Daniel Boulud
Ming Tsai

Which season four recipe will be included in the Top Chef Cookbook?

Dale's Baby Back Ribs Marinated in Tandoori
Richard's Banana Scallops with Banana Guacamole
Antonia's Rice Salad with Skirt Steak, Arugula, Cherry Tomatoes
Jennifer's Shrimp and Scallop Beignets

Which season four chef won the most elimination challenges?

Stephanie
Richard
Dale
Antonia

During season four, Lisa created a bizarre side dish that impressed Rick Tramonto. What was it?

Honey-Soaked Rice Pilaf
Peanut Butter Mashed Potatoes
Butterscotch Scallops
Sugared Shrimp Scramble

In an earlier season, this contestant earned some heat from the Judges' Table with the statement,

'Top Chef Masters' - No More Drama?

Posted Jun 11th 2009 2:00PM by Michael Thomas Hastings
Filed under: Television/Film

In uncertain times, we count on simple pleasures: Home cooking, unemployment checks and the heady mix of ego, chutzpah and alcohol-fueled drama we have come to anticipate from "Top Chef."

So when Bravo announced that "Top Chef Masters," the show's latest iteration (hosted by Kelly Choi, right), would be given over to established culinary superstars, fans had reason to worry: Would decorum and professionalism win out over brash experimentation? Would upstart bickering be replaced by upper-crust camaraderie? Would the fauxhawk go the way of the dodo?

The answer after the inaugural hour is a qualified "yes." But what "Top Chef Masters" loses in amateur hour enthusiasm it gains in hyper-astute commentary. It is a knowing look at what it means to be a celebrity chef in an era when celebrity chefs are often made overnight on cable TV. Every week, by stripping four different "masters" of their sous chefs, sommeliers and Cuisinarts -- in one instance forcing them to make do with nothing more than a dorm room's toaster oven, microwave and hot plate -- it resets the bar for gourmet ingenuity.

Read on to learn about the Girl Scout mafia's dessert tastes and prosciutto-popcorn risotto.

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Top Chef Bridal Shower Challenge

Posted Dec 9th 2008 3:06PM by Annie Scott
Filed under: Parties, Television/Film, Celebrations

Tomorrow night on Top Chef, Gail Simmons has a special surprise for the Chef'testants. She's throwing her girlfriend a bridal shower and they are cooking!

Creating a menu around the old maxim:

Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

... should be no trouble for the teams (Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue ... where's Sixpence?).

The only problem is, some of them don't look too excited to be Gail Simmons' personal chefs. Isn't this supposed to be a competition, not a service?

The episode airs tomorrow night, Wednesday, December 10th, at 10/9c on Bravo with guest judge Dana Cowin, Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine Magazine.

New Top Chef host announced

Posted Aug 14th 2006 7:01AM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Television/Film

We closely followed Bravo's culinary reality show Top Chef all through its first season earlier this year, and when we heard that Katie Lee Joel would not be back to host the upcoming season, we were quite sad. Just kidding. We couldn't wait to see who they brought in as a replacement.

The new host is Padma Lakshmi, an Indian supermodel, actress and fashion writer, as well as the author of two cookbooks (one is still pending release) and host of a now-defunct show on the Food Network. She has more presence and perhaps more culinary experience than Katie Lee, but hopefully she will prove to be a bit more expressive in her delivery of her lines.

The new season is already filming and it is set in Los Angeles, as opposed to San Francisco. The episodes are scheduled to begin airing in October of this year.

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'Top Chef - The Quickfire Cookbook' - Cookbook Spotlight

Top Chef Trivia

Top Chef Trivia

In Season 5, who stepped in as a semi-permanent judge when Gail Simmons took time off to honeymoon?

Who was the first guest judge of season four?

Which season four recipe will be included in the Top Chef Cookbook?

Which season four chef won the most elimination challenges?

During season four, Lisa created a bizarre side dish that impressed Rick Tramonto. What was it?

In an earlier season, this contestant earned some heat from the Judges' Table with the statement,

'Top Chef Masters' - No More Drama?

Top Chef Bridal Shower Challenge

New Top Chef host announced

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