If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person,… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Never let the pressure get so big that you stop cooking and being who you are. I'm going to win or lose… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Chefs hate desserts. The smartest thing a chef can do is hire a great pastry chef. Cooking savory food is all about… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest chefs in the world aren't classically trained. Thomas Keller - probably the greatest American chef ever to walk… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
The great thing about chefs as celebrities is it gives you a larger stage to let people know how important great food… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
As a chef and someone who's been in the restaurant business for almost thirty years now, if there's one thing I learned… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
As the competition goes further along, you start to see who's rising and who's falling. — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner,… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
