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If you're a fan of Top Chef, you may recall season 5's Fabio Viviani, who didn't win the competition, but made it to the final three and came out as the fan favorite of that season. What you may not have known about this Italian chef is that reality TV was only just the beginning: he's publishing his own book this month.

The Café Firenze Cookbook: Food and Drink from the Tuscan Sons was pitched to several traditional publishing houses prior to Fabio's appearance on Top Chef, but when his publicist couldn't find a taker, they decided to self-publish through BRIO, and later chose to distribute through Greenleaf Book Group.

Check out Publisher's Weekly's article on Fabio and his cookbook: "Top Chef's Fabio Self Publishes Cookbook."

Here are a few more links:

Fabio's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/fabioviviani

The Cafe Firenze website: https://www.cafefirenze.net/

The Cafe Firenze Cookbook Amazon.com page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981929095?ie=UTF8&tag=eatmedail-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0981929095