Michael Symon Quotes

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• If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.
• Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
• It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to…
• Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels
• I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who…
• You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and…
• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill…
• For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
• I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.
• My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
• When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had…
• 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 mind. I'm like,…
• 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 increase…
• I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't…
• On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the…
• 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 TV and you…
• Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.
• My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I…
• Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is…

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