I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

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.