Episode
Top Chef: Covert Cuisine
Overview
The chefs are asked to take common recipes and create their own completely original redesigned dish.
Details
- Series
- Top Chef
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2010-08-18
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Covert Cuisine is Episode 10 in D.C. of Top Chef. It aired on 2010-08-18. The runtime is 42 min.
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