Bobby Flay Quotes

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• Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
• 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.
• 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…
• I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just…
• You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.
• Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
• It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too…
• In the end, your creativity -- perhaps even your outrageousness -- will determine the final result.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I…
• I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's…
• Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.
• 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…
• 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…
• The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and…
• Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
• You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.

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