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I live in New York and I’m in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that’s why they’re successful.

Bobby Flay

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything – vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I’m always on the hunt for great honey.
BOBBY FLAY

Flavor Perfect Smoke Soup
When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
BOBBY FLAY

Cook Hire Hiring Restaurant Want
I don’t like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl – using only enough to glaze the leaves – then toss.
BOBBY FLAY

Dressing Enough Green Sides Toss
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
BOBBY FLAY

Corn Parent Summer
I can’t grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don’t bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.
BOBBY FLAY

Grilling Home Steaks Tongs Vegetables
I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen’s, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.
BOBBY FLAY

First Handicap Job Look Photo Remember
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts People
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It’s brutal. And there’s a trophy.
BOBBY FLAY

Games Happen Holiday Men Pursuit
Nobody believed the ‘Food Network’ could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They’ll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn’t true. ‘Food Network’ continues to get better and evolve.
BOBBY FLAY

Better Four Get Running
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink – some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
BOBBY FLAY

Morning Open Sleep Two Week Years
If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She’s going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she’s around it all the time.
BOBBY FLAY

Daughter Hard Mother Times
You can’t chase everybody on the Internet who’s saying stuff about you, that’s for sure.
BOBBY FLAY

Internet Say Stuff Sure
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
BOBBY FLAY

Cutting Restaurant Three
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Fishing Hamburgers
Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
BOBBY FLAY

Homestores Oil Pay Sauce
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
BOBBY FLAY

Dishes Psychology Side Vegetables

I live in New York and I’m in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that’s why they’re successful.

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