Top Chef (2006)
An American reality competition show in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges and are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode.
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Episode 1 - Melting Pot
Release Date: 2008-11-12One chef is eliminated in a three-round quickfire involving apples. The remaining chefs create dishes representing the ethnic cuisines of several New York neighborhoods.
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Episode 2 - Show Your Craft
Release Date: 2008-11-19After re-inventing the hot dog for the quickfire challenge, the chefs cook and serve lunch at Tom's flagship restaurant, Craft.
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Episode 3 - Foo Fighters Thanksgiving
Release Date: 2008-11-26For the quickfire, the chefs recreate dishes from the Top Chef cookbook. In the elimination challenge, they cook Thanksgiving dinner for the Foo Fighters at the band's tour stop in Syracuse, N.Y.
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Episode 4 - Today Show
Release Date: 2008-12-03After creating a breakfast amuse-bouche for the quickfire, the contestants compete in a live food demonstration challenge in order to earn a booking on "Today."
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Episode 5 - Gail's Bridal Shower
Release Date: 2008-12-10For the quickfire, chefs must identify ingredients in a dish. For the elimination challenge, the contestants cater a bridal shower for judge Gail Simmons.
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Episode 6 - 12 Days of Christmas
Release Date: 2008-12-17Domestic guru Martha Stewart oversees the quick fire challenge in this holiday-themed edition. Then, actress Natasha Richardson is the guest judge when the cooks cater a Christmas cocktail party in which the proceeds go to the AIDS research.
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Episode 7 - Focus Group
Release Date: 2009-01-07The chefs must create a sweet dish without using sugar (guest judge: chef and restaurateur Jean-Christophe Novelli). In the elimination challenge, chefs prepare a family-style meal for blind judging.
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Episode 8 - Down on the Farm
Release Date: 2009-01-14Contestants shop for fresh ingredients at a farm and then create a dinner for the farm workers.
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Episode 9 - Restaurant Wars
Release Date: 2009-01-21Two teams have 24 hours to design and open competing restaurants.
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Episode 10 - Super Bowl Chef Showdown
Release Date: 2009-01-28A Super Bowl cook-off against seven all-stars from previous seasons.
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Episode 11 - Le Bernardin
Release Date: 2009-02-04After a three-round fish filleting tournament, the contestants cook at Le Bernadin where their final product will be judged by chef Eric Ripert.
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Episode 12 - The Last Supper
Release Date: 2009-02-11Wylie Dufresne judges a quickfire challenge of egg dishes. For the elimination challenge, the five remaining chefs each cook a "last supper" dish requested by a culinary superstar.
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Episode 13 - Finale, Part 1
Release Date: 2009-02-18The season finale finds the chefs traveling from New York to New Orleans. While in the "Big Easy" they will be challenged to kick it up a notch when celebrity judge/chef Emeril Lagasse stops by to appraise their culinary skills.
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Episode 14 - Finale, Part 2
Release Date: 2009-02-25Set in New Orleans, season 5 ends as the winning chef is revealed.
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Episode 15 - Watch What Happens Reunion
Release Date: 2009-03-04Andy Cohen hosts a candid gathering of season five's chefs and judges.