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I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Bobby Flay

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
I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
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Family History Long
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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Country Restaurants Successful
Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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Inspirational Mistake Success
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
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 dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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High School School Work
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 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
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 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
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
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Location Parks Space
When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
BOBBY FLAY

Burger Nuts 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
I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn’t really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business.
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Home Jobs School
I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.
BOBBY FLAY

Atmosphere Culture Grilling
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
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
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
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 still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
BOBBY FLAY

Childhood Fatherhood Memories
Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
BOBBY FLAY

Cooking Excellent Giving Style
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Business Doors Focus Kitchen
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
BOBBY FLAY

Country Grilling Involved People Want
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.
BOBBY FLAY

Homestores Oil Pay Sauce
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
BOBBY FLAY

Friendly Grilling Heat
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

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