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

Bobby Flay

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

Family History Long
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
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
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
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 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
It’s important to have balance in your life between work and play.
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Balance Important Play
I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.
BOBBY FLAY

Atmosphere Culture Grilling
Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you’re opening a restaurant.
BOBBY FLAY

Especially Opening Restaurants
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
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 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
Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Excellent Giving Style
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts People
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Better Four Get Running
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
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
BOBBY FLAY

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

High School School Work
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
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Cutting Restaurant Three
I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing.
BOBBY FLAY

Cities Cosmopolitan Country People
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 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
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
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
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

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