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Welcome back, Top Chef! I was getting tired of watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show (parts one and two) On Demand over and over while I waited out your return.

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Last week, the irrepressible Bravo network announced that they’re picking up Top Chef: Just Desserts, a spin-off of our favorite cooking competition show featuring pastry chefs battling for sweet-tooth supremacy. Let’s gloss over, for a moment, your desire to either a) celebrate more Top Chef in your life or b) complain about too much Top Chef in your life to address a more pressing question — there’s a casting call for the show at NYC’s Craftsteak this coming Sunday, Nov. 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Which local pastry chefs/dessert specialists do you think would do the most damage?

We’ve provided our list after the jump. Please share your thoughts/picks in the comments.

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Natalie Portman and Tom C make a lovely couple, don’t you think?

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Redeeming a late pass for this one. Blame it on the alcohol Phillies alcohol and Phillies.

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We know, we know: Few things appear douchier to the average person than watching a bunch of people taste wine. But y’all oenophobes should know that all the sniffing and the swirling and the holding it up to the light stuff is imperative to the process. The dumping of perfectly good vino into classy silver spittoons, however? I could take it or leave it. This is probably why the only tasting notes I ever really write are about Fruit by the Foot.

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Dr. Oetker’s Funghi pizza

From 3-6 p.m. this Monday, Oct. 19, former Top Chef contestant and Cali-Italian Fabio Viviani will hand out 5,000 free Dr. Oetker’s Ristorante frozen pizzas to commuters at 30th St. Station.  The pizza promo kicks off the debut of Dr. Oetker’s line of freezer pizza in Philadelphia, Boston and New York.  The German company’s thin-crust pies come in Spinaci, Vegetale, Mozzarella, Funghi and Pizza Generosa, a pepperoni and bell pepper version, and run $4.99 to $5.99 for a 12-incher.

Dr. Oetker’s is Italy’s number-one selling frozen pizza product, which Fabio undoubtedly munched as a suave Italiano teenager before zooming around on his hopped-up Vespa to seduce gullible American tourists.  Anyway, Dr. Oetker’s sent Team Meal Ticket a nifty dry-ice package of frozen pizza to sample and pass judgement upon.  Find out if Dr. Oetker’s delivers, after the jump.

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How diverse of you, Top Chef producers! A white dude, an Asian dude, a black dude, a woman and a dude who thinks this is OK!

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Y’all already know how I feel about magic, so let’s just get right into it.

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Late pass!

People got a little prickly on this week’s episode.

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