Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Burrell's Food Network show Secrets Of a Restaurant Chef debuted June 29 2008. Season 2 started on January 31 2013. The Batali connection would further propel her career.

She was a contestant on the fourth season of The Food Network competition show The Next Iron Chef Super Chefs being eliminated in episode 6. Burrell (born September 21 1969) is an American chef TV personality and was an instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City until 2007.