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I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

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Bobby Flay
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 10
Chef
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Restaurateur
New York City
New York
Robert William Flay
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I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
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Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.
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Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
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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 Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
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When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and New York elements while ... having their own flavor.
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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 soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
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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.
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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 Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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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 wanted to cook, period.
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I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
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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.
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A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
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An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
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Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.
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You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
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Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.
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Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
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