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For eight seasons, we've watched the contestants on Bravo's "Top Chef" chop, simmer, and sauté -- now you can finally taste what they dished up. Our friends at iVillage have 21 recipes from Top Chef contestants, from Richard Blais' vegetarian tacos to Carla Hall's green eggs and ham. The best part? In your kitchen, there's no time clock, no judges panel, and nobody needs to pack up their knives and go home.

Get all 21 Top Chef recipes at iVillage.com.

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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.