Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
BOBBY FLAYCharcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
BOBBY FLAYOne 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 FLAYI 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 FLAYWhen 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 FLAYI seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing.
BOBBY FLAYThere 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 FLAYI dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
BOBBY FLAYI think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it’s the flame, maybe it’s the big grills, maybe they’ve had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.
BOBBY FLAYI can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
BOBBY FLAYDon’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 FLAYTake risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
BOBBY FLAYI don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
BOBBY FLAYWhen people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAYGrilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
BOBBY FLAYI love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it’s much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
BOBBY FLAYCooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
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