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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

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
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
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
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
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they’re not intimidated by them. If I’m doing ‘Boy Meets Grill,’ and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
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Boys Home Successful
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.
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Morning Open Sleep Two Week Years
Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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Inspirational Mistake Success
Everybody says, ‘I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,’ but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It’s very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner – it just happens to have grates. You shouldn’t be intimidated by it.
BOBBY FLAY

Common Sense Simple Thinking
Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
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Business Doors Focus Kitchen
I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing.
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Cities Cosmopolitan Country People
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Grilling Involved People Want
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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Cook Hire Hiring Restaurant Want
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

Country Restaurants Successful
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
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.
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Dressing Enough Green Sides Toss
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
BOBBY FLAY

Childhood Fatherhood Memories
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
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
Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.
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Corn Parent Summer
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
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Friendly Grilling Heat
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Holiday Nice Sweet
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.
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Accomplishment Country People Proud
I can’t be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.
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Cheeseburger Country Diets People
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.
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Cutting Restaurant Three
I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.
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Atmosphere Culture Grilling
I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
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Country Thinking Quality

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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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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