"All of it. Mise en place. The set up, so all the ingredients are where you need them when you've actually got a fire going." Priestly shrugged, gesturing to the area around the cutting board with a wooden spoon and looking thoughtful.

He was taking all this too seriously. He always did. He grabbed another gulp of scotch.

"Ted, the fish guy, he's cool. He doesn't get a lot of air time because he's, you know, level-headed and crap. And a couple of the servers, you know, the ones who aren't always trying to skip out for auditions that don't go anywhere. That one girl, you know, from season one, the one who wanted to go into stand up? She was fantastic. Which would be why she only did one season before moving to New York. I hear she writes for the Daily Show or something, now."