You've seen them judge the competition, battle for the title of All-Stars champion and compete in a friendly game with colleagues on After Hours, but there's a lot you don't know about the judges of Chopped. Here's your chance to get to know the nine people behind the Chopping Block.

Geoffrey Zakarian is the chef of The Lambs Club and The National, both in New York City. His former New York City restaurants, Town and Country, both received three stars from The New York Times. Besides his judging duties on Chopped, you'll also find Geoffrey on Iron Chef America. He won the title of Iron Chef in the third season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. One thing you might not have known about Geoffrey is that if he hadn't become a chef, he might have been a concert pianist.

What's your Achilles' heel ingredient, one that you hate to work with or encounter in someone else's dish?

What dish or ingredient will we never catch you eating?

What was your most memorable meal? What? Where? Who? Details, please.

GZ: Anything I share with my amazing wife and kids. It never gets any better.

Is there one dish that you always order out and never make at home?

If you weren't in food, what career would you have liked to have tried?