I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
BOBBY FLAYMy partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
More Bobby Flay Quotes
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Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
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When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
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It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
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Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
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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.
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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.
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I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.
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I probably use my chef’s knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I’m not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.
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