Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook

by Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi (Foreword by)

Overview

The creators of Bravo’s Top Chef share seventy-five Quickfire memorable recipes in this cookbook featuring tips, photos, contestant interviews, and more.

The much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Top Chef: The Cookbook is here! Drawing from the first five 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 your own 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811875899
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Antonis Achilleos is a New York-based photographer.Padma Lakshmi is host of Top Chef. A former model and actress, she is the author of two cookbooks.

Editorial Reviews

The time is probably not yet ripe for you to toss your chef's hat into Bravo's Top Chef competition, but you can enjoy many of its best Quickfire Challenge recipes. Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook collects 75 top-flight recipes from the five seasons of the show. With the help of this illustrated book, you will be able to reproduce your own versions of Spike's Pizza Alla Grecque and Stephanie's Chocolate Cake. The book also contains information on hosting your own Quickfire Cocktail Party and staging, if you dare, your own home Quickfire Challenge. An apt resource for any fantasy Top Chef.

Top Chef fans will demand this cookbook, which includes chef bios, plenty of pictures, and recipes (with cooking, time, show season, and episode) from the show's Quickfire Challenges: Jeff's Oat-Fried Chicken and Grits (Quickfire Challenge: create a unique dish that pairs with Quaker Oats in 45 minutes); Fabio's Brûléed Banana with Espresso Zabaione (Quickfire Challenge: create a breakfast amuse-bouche for guest Rocco DiSpirito); and Tre's Surf-and-Turf Burger (Quickfire Challenge: create an adventurous burger).

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