Sara Nguyen has taken her high heels to Long Island since her defenestration from Top Chef 3 to gather her wits and knives before she joins ex–Top Chef Joey at Café des Artistes. Now that she’s off the show she can let the claws out about Howie’s low blows, women chefs holding their own, and how doling out meals from a catering truck to drunk fools is best when one has not just drunk a whole bottle of wine oneself.

Listen to all of this season’s Top Chef podcasts:
Season 3 Round Table
Hung Huynh
Dale Levitski
Casey Thompson
Brian Malarkey
Sara Mair
CJ Jacobsen
Howie Kleinberg
Tre Wilcox
Joey Paulino
Lia Bardeen
Camille Becerra
Micah Edelstein
Sandee Birdsong
Clay Bowen