keeping it simple
I was really upset to see Julia leave "Hell's Kitchen" on Monday night. She was feisty and fun, and she alone among the contestants really understood the value of working together and just getting the job done.
And she was the underdog: Everyone else kept saying things like, "Oh, well, she's just a waffle house cook. She doesn't know anything." Snobs.
Still, she kept winning challenges, despite her admitted lack of knowledge about fine dining, because she at least knew how to make food taste good. She even won Monday's challenge, when they were all taken to a high school to create dishes for the students. All those fancy-dancy snobs made weird things, with goat cheese or salmon, but Julia kept it simple and make a fried chicken sandwich with cheese, and onion rings on the side. Much better than your usual cafeteria chicken-patty sandwich, and the kids loved it! Of course they did -- you don't serve goat cheese to high-schoolers.
At least she wasn't kicked off as rudely as the others had been. Usually Chef Gordon Ramsay screams at people -- something like, "Take off your jacket and get out of Hell's Kitchen!" -- but he told her he thought she had real talent, and that he's sending her to culinary school so she can hone that talent and come back and win.