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In The End, Your Creativity -- Perhaps Even Your Outrageousness -- Will Determine The Final Result.

Don't Try To Be The Next Rachael Ray Or Bobby Flay, We Already Have Those People. We Want Someone Who Is Going To Make Their Own Mark On 'food Network.'

I Was Not Such A Great Student, .. So, When I Graduated High School, I Went To Work Cooking. I Cooked A Little At Home, But Back Then, Cooking Wasn't Really A Profession That You Aspired To, Unless Your Family Was In The Business. I Looked At It As A Job. My First Job Was At Joe Allen's, And I Remember There Was A Photo Over The Bar Of The Triple Dead Heat From The 1944 Carter Handicap.

One Of The Things That Happens In My House On The Holidays Is After Dessert, We Sit Down To A Very Ambitious Men-versus-women Game Of Trivial Pursuit. It's Brutal. And There's A Trophy.

Chipotles To Me Are A One-of-a-kind Pepper Because They're Smoked Jalapenos, So They're Fiery And They're Smoky. It's Good To Use Chipotles In Salsas Or Soups Or Condiments - That Works Really Well. To Me, They Always Really Pick Up Anything You Put Them In.