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I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Bobby Flay

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
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
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
BOBBY FLAY

Dishes Psychology Side Vegetables
I 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 FLAY

Fire Flames Grilling Intimated 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.
BOBBY FLAY

Morning Open Sleep Two Week Years
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Dressing Enough Green Sides Toss
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Enough New Something
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
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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Boys Home Successful
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 seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing.
BOBBY FLAY

Cities Cosmopolitan Country People
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
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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

First Handicap Job Look Photo Remember
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Food Jalapenos Smoky Soup Use

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