Johnson: It's a scramble to the finish  2013-04-19 16:08:25
"A forensic anthropologist," she said.     Egg yolks flew. Hash
browns went splat on the floor.  How no one was burned from the
hot skillets or gut-gouged by a knife I will never understand.
"Watch your fingers!" Karamardian shouted repeatedly as she
dashed about.  As kids and chefs flailed about him, I noticed
Alexander calmly and quite deftly taking a red bell pepper apart
and reducing it to even julienned slices. He stopped and looked
up at me with an expression that said, What? You want me to
teach you?  "I learned this by watching 'Iron Chef' and
'Chopped,'" he finally said before getting back to the task
before him.  "Scary," Juliette said, trying to concentrate amid
the chaos while carefully tending to a pan of eggs. "You just
don't want to hurt yourself."  Her eggs, which she has topped
with cheese, tomato and basil, are finished perfectly.  It isn't
until Karamardian summons help from her pasty chef, Michelle
Bracken, that the c