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Michael Mina
American
Chef
Born:
1969
Cooking
Food
Love
People
Time
You
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Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Michael Mina
Food
Mom
You
Soul
Sick
Recipe
Secret
Eat
Both
Clear
Feeds
Also
Balanced
Balanced Diet
Cling
Noodle
Soup
Chicken
Diet
Body
Your
Reasons
From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat.
Michael Mina
You
Age
Cooking
Young
Kid
Spicy
Eat
Something
Never
Put
Idea
Missing
Until
Balanced
Balancing
Understood
Hamburger
Began
Young Age
Flavor
Flavors
Really
Reason
Sweets
Who
Professionally
Fat
Ketchup
Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.
Michael Mina
Time
You
Top
Top Chef
Kids
Willingness
Only
Kitchen
Only Time
Chef
Messy
Get
Maybe
Little
Require
Your
Bringing
Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.
Michael Mina
Food
Balance
About
Taste
There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.
Michael Mina
Day
Every Day
Better
Impossible
Before
Every
Worse
Restaurant
Because
Always
Than
Improve
Human
Room
I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.
Michael Mina
You
Cooking
Believe
Other
Guests
Cities
Dine
Vegas
Most
Makes
Different
Las Vegas
The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.
Michael Mina
Me
You
Better
Enjoy
Everything
Ways
Out
Has-Been
Run
Restaurants
Part
Know
Most
Involved
Make
Priority
Been
Being
Different
Them
Figuring
Different Ways
Deeply
I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
Michael Mina
Food
Better
Country
Our
Daniel
Restaurants
Some
Rather
Make
Than
Going
There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.
Michael Mina
Life
Time
You
Cooking
People
Try
Other
Settle
Way
Ways
Out
Find
One-Way
Take
Look
How
Very
Paths
Different
Your
Works
Different Things
Things
Early
Two
You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
Michael Mina
You
Remember
Guest
Cater
Always
Your
Who
I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.
Michael Mina
Food
Personality
Enjoy
Guests
Out
Restaurants
Some
Wines
Come
Look
Supreme
Masters
Intense
Want
Meat
Each
Serious
Each One
People love steak all over the United States.
Michael Mina
Love
People
States
Steak
Over
United
United States
When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.
Michael Mina
Time
Personality
Job
Own
Starts
Settle
Restaurant
Restaurants
Five-Year
Mature
Your
Grow
Start
My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.
Michael Mina
Day
School
Half
Employees
Ran
High
Restaurant
High School
Had
Years
Did
Just
Little
Cool
Last
Two
I'm not a big breakfast eater.
Michael Mina
Big
Breakfast
Eater
When I first went to Las Vegas, I thought I would never go to Las Vegas; you can't get anything. But then I realized that they were trucking in almost everything; you could get a lot of your product, and I think that's why a lot of chefs actually went there.
Michael Mina
You
Thought
First
Think
Everything
Would
Could
Vegas
Never
Almost
Almost Everything
Chefs
Go
Were
Lot
Get
Anything
Realized
Then
Product
Your
Why
Actually
Las Vegas
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