Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook

8 x 10 in; 224 pp ; images throughout
Hardcover
Published in September, 2009
ISBN 9780811870825
ISBN10 0811870820

$29.95  

Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook -- The much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Top Chef: The Cookbook is here! Drawing from all 5 seasons of the show, Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook features 75 of the best recipes—from Spike's Pizza alla Greek to Stephanie's Bittersweet Chocolate Cake—culled from the Top Chef Quickfire Challenges. Everything the home chef needs to assemble an impressive meal and channel the energy of the Quickfire kitchen is collected here, including advice on hosting a Quickfire Cocktail Party and staging Quickfire Challenges at home. Best of all, this book is spilling over with sidebar material, including tips for home chefs, interviews with contestants, fabulous photos, and fun trivia related to the chefs, dishes, and ingredients that make Top Chef a favorite.

Padma Lakshmi is host of Top Chef. A former model and actress, she is the author of two cookbooks.

Antonis Achilleos is a New York-based photographer.

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Decent for the money

2009-11-05 | 3:51 PM | nicole henke

I love the show, so getting the cookbook was a no-brainer. What is difficult though is finding some of the ingredients used in the recipes in my area. I have to travel 45 min to a major metropolitan area to find them. That alone can make some of the recipes off putting. I've learned to substitute when I can and would still recommend this cookbook for gifts!