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first up, mario batali. shorts, vest, and orange crocs. a le cordon bleu dropout, instead batali got schooled in a remote italian village. he made his splash in new york with babbo, and now he is known around the world for his restaurants, cook books, and personality. >> when you tell me that you're in a hurry, i'm already leaving the house. >> next, rachael ray. if the kitchen is a man's world, ray did not get the memo. growing up in her family's restaurant business, she turned her concept for 30-minute meals into an empire. >> pat me on the back. >> yeah, baby. >> and yet, the emmy award- winning host is too humble to take credit, calling her career a happy accident. bobby flay. flay says being a chef wasn't cool when he went to the french culinary institute, but he changed all that in the early- 1990's, between his first restaurant and becoming a food network star. >> nerves are ok. utilize those nerves the best way. >> flay is still not afraid of hard work, even eyeing a run for office. rounding out the group, tom colicchio. to colicch

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wednesday and, you know, there's going to be other great chefs from the venetian and palazzo like mario batali. >> i love buddy here. he cooks and talks at the same time. >> keeps me going. >> smells great. >> we're not fooling around here. >> this is something we can get at buddy's restaurant. >> at buddy v's restaurante in the venetian palazzo. >> it's called orecchiette. >> orecchiette, shallots and broccolini. you keep stirring that. and then we got a little bit of sausage in there so we cook that down. whoop. making a little bit of a mess and after you cook it, it gets like that and, oh, the chili just for a little bit of heat and put a little bit of butter. put a little bit of orecchiette in there. all right. all right. okay, perfect. we stir that up. we let that cook and then we got mozzarella and coroza? >> what is that? >> it's -- you know what, it's like the italian grilled cheese. >> okay. >> and basically it's got a little bit of pesto, it's got mozzarella inside. it's in the bread and then it's grilled together it's just like forget about it. but all these great things are comfort