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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 feel like that's why they're successful.

Bobby Flay

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Bobby Flay
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 10
Chef
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Restaurateur
New York City
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Robert William Flay
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In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.
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It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.
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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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Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
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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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I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.
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If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.
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I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
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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, they all have sharp blades.
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Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.
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I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, I have a really great idea for a restaurant.
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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 partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
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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 the thing people don't realize.
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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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Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
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When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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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.
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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 I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
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'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
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