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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.

Bobby Flay

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
BOBBY FLAY

High School School Work
Don’t try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on ‘Food Network.’
BOBBY FLAY

Food Network People Trying Want
Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
BOBBY FLAY

Inspirational Mistake Success
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
BOBBY FLAY

Location Parks Space
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.
BOBBY FLAY

Accomplishment Country People Proud
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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Kitchen Knives Tools
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Grilling Involved People Want
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
Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don’t, you’re dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero’s heat by pairing it with sweet food.
BOBBY FLAY

Challenges Order Sweet
I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Thinking Quality
One thing you don’t want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
BOBBY FLAY

Evening Romance Running Time
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
There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
BOBBY FLAY

Friendly Hurt Team
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts People
It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
BOBBY FLAY

Balance Important Play

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.

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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.

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