All Michael Symon Quotes
- If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything. Cook
- 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. Cookbook
- 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… Age
- Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels Bike
- 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… All
- 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… Ability
- Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill… Day
- For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore. Able
- I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry. Bones
- I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. All
- My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks. Approachable
- 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… Ago
- 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,… Bad
- 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… Better
- 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… Ago
- 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… Bit
- 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… All
- Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style. Bacon
- 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… Deserve
- Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is… Bonded
- I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is… Any
- 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, it's… Always Try
- 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 things… Always Tell
- People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and… Afraid
- I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is… Batali