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Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.

Bobby Flay

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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First Handicap Job Look Photo Remember
In the end, your creativity — perhaps even your outrageousness — will determine the final result.
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Creativity Ends Finals
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
Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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Inspirational Mistake Success
I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
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Family History Long
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 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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Kitchen Knives Tools
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.’
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Food Network People Trying Want
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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Holiday Nice Sweet
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
Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they’re smoked jalapenos, so they’re fiery and they’re smoky. It’s good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments – that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
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Food Jalapenos Smoky Soup Use
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
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Cooking Enough New Something
I 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.
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Childhood Experience Flames People Thinking
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 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
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
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Friendly Grilling Heat
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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Better Four Get Running
You can’t chase everybody on the Internet who’s saying stuff about you, that’s for sure.
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Internet Say Stuff Sure
It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
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Balance Important Play
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.
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Especially Opening Restaurants
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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Cooking Fishing Hamburgers
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.
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Flavor Perfect Smoke Soup
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
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
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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Burger Nuts People
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.
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Homestores Oil Pay Sauce
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
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Dishes Psychology Side Vegetables

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