If you’re Chef Rebecca Newell, you’ll whip up a mouthwatering bread pudding and clinch $10,000 in the process. Chef Newell created quite a buzz for Boston restaurant, The Beehive (at which Newell is the Executive Chef), when she bested three other chefs on the frantic Food Network culinary battle, Chopped. The cooking competition challenges participants to create three courses out of a basket full of random mystery ingredients, with sometimes decadent, sometimes disastrous results. In an historic all-female episode (the show’s first), Chef Newell way cool and smooth under pressure and exhibited some fine technique and incredible creativity. She took a break from kitchen duty to answer some questions for Purcell Murray.