It used to be you were the last one to get equipment, you were low man on the totem pole.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

[Building a dessert on an unlikely flavor can also be risky business.] If it's warm and chocolate it's nirvana for most people, ... But I can't give away prune desserts.

The testosterone that flows through the hot line in the kitchen is unbelievable. Women are considered weaker and were always pushed off to pastry.

Men are always pushed into group situations ... like group sports with a leader. In the kitchen the chef is your captain, but in pastry there is more autonomy, more independence. Women relish that. you are permitted to be creative sooner than on the hot line.

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.