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  <title><![CDATA[Top Chef Cookbook: Original Interviews and Recipes from Bravo's hit show]]></title>
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  <default_description>Pack your knives and go . . . straight to the bookstore. &lt;i&gt;Top Chef&lt;/i&gt; 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, &lt;i&gt;The Top Chef Cookbook&lt;/i&gt; 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 &lt;i&gt;Top Chef&lt;/i&gt; pantry and the competition sites. Handsomely packaged with a canvas cover inspired by the chef's jacket worn by each of the &lt;i&gt;Top Chef&lt;/i&gt; 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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 08:27:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 08:31:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[honestly, i can do without all the airbrushed glamour-shot centerfoldy pages of the chefs, but i approve of the crabcakes benedict and almost all of the breakfast items are wonderful, many involving eggs and maple syrup. but really - wayyy too many nonfood pages. its disconcerting to get all hungry-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46407403">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 06:49:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great if you're a fan of the show bc it has interviews with all the judges (including my beloved Tom C.) and contestants (apparently Marcel is friends with Cliff now (!)), recaps of each episode/season and behind the scenes info (like the layout of the kitchen, food essentials, etc).  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43109688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74110110">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 10 16:36:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 10 18:50:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top Chef has three seasons of the hit television show.  It also has the recipes and pictures of most of the winning recipes from the show.  I got this book to get the recipes and found more tidbits from the contestants and judges than the food, which was a bit disappointing.<br/><br/>But still.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74110110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43659585">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jean]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 17:43:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A funny read for fans of the show but the complex preparations and the amount of cilantro-laden dishes was off-putting. I don't like cilantro as a dominant flavor which got in the way of my usual pure joy in eating.  There were some bright spots.  Our quickfire smoothee challenge was really laugh-fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43659585">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 31 09:05:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 09:09:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's so funny to me that many of the recipes in this book (and shown on Food Network or Bravo) contain the same staple of ingredients: leeks, celery root, microgreens, scallions, EVOO, truffle of some sort, broccoli rab, scallops, balsalmic anything, etc. I used to have such awe and admiration for s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44950020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42079666">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It satisfied my pop culture curiosity while the current season is on a break.  I liked the graphic design of the book - very modern and colorful, with lots of mouth-watering food pix (as you'd hope). I would find it hard to recommend to any but the most sophisticated chefs, due to the obscure ingred...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42079666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41730973">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 11:44:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a die hard Top Chef viewer, it's one of my top three favorite shows, ever.  This book certainly brings attention to the knowledge base that a chef must possess.  The recipes are extremely complicated to the average cook, but I'm sure they're relatively &quot;simple&quot; for the Top Cheftestants...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41730973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41085835">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 09:16:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The perfect book for any hard-core Top Chef fan.  If you love the show, you'll love the book as it is packed with information about all of the judges and contestants as well as some of the best recipes from the first three seasons!  I love Tom and Padma! :)]]></body>
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    <review id="38254083">
    <user id="1037183">
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    <location><![CDATA[Knoxville, TN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 21:11:27 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some fun recipes, but probablly most of them are to expensive for me to make.  I don't understand why some did not have pictures.  The stuff about the show was pretty lame and came off as pretty self-important.  I did linger over the pictures of Gail Simmons though.]]></body>
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    <review id="76110782">
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    <name><![CDATA[Margaret]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 29 08:41:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book as an avid watcher of the tv reality show Top Chef this a great companion to the first 3 seasons, lots of insight from the judges.  Some great recipes too!]]></body>
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    <review id="43712434">
    <user id="1824629">
    <name><![CDATA[Wendy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 11:50:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not just recipes from the first 3 seasons, but great bits from all the players - Tom, other judges, and the contestants, too!]]></body>
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    <review id="72414640">
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    <name><![CDATA[Methidoc]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Totally interesting. I only hope they come out with one every 3 seasons...]]></body>
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    <review id="46023226">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the show Top Chef and this book is a great companion to it. It not only has recipies but also has stories and notes about the cheftestants.]]></body>
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    <review id="43243399">
    <user id="751609">
    <name><![CDATA[rachelraven]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a cookbook, but I like the show, so I found it interesting to read about &quot;the characters.&quot; I love cookbooks, though, so as long as there are pictures to accompany the recipes, I'm generally happy!]]></body>
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    <review id="23634773">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this, because pretty much I'm a Top Chef fanatic, and I just ate up (pardon my pun) the whole book. My only complaint is that there needed to be more pictures of the food. Not that I would ever attempt these recipes, because I can barely handle grilled cheese, but that's one of my f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23634773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37951857">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 17 09:59:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This cookbook is handy if you happen to have any truffles, Chilean sea bass, monk fish, sweetbreads, scallops, or any other expensive ingredient lying around in your kitchen that you can't think what to do with.  As a huge fan of the show, I thought that the &quot;inside&quot; info on the show was l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37951857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17550267">
    <user id="15992">
    <name><![CDATA[KimmyB]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 19:15:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this. I hesitate to call it just a cookbook, because it is so much more than that. I love the show Top Chef, and even though a majority of the recipes are far too fancy for my tastes, I loved looking at them and the pictures. The best part of the book is definitely all of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17550267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40673216">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not that I could ever pull off most of the recipes in this book (some of the ingredients are hard to find/ridiculously expensive), but I loved the info about the show itself and all the behind-the-scenes stuff.  The bit about Brian from Season 3 in the bathroom at the French Culinary Institute was p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32966265">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is actually a half cookbook, half informational book about the first 3 seasons of Top Chef. Some of the recipes are actually doable for non-chef people such as myself, but I think the best parts of the book are the interviews and the behind-the-scenes bits about the TV show.]]></body>
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