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Michael Symon
American
Chef
Born:
Sep 19
,
1969
Food
Great
People
Think
Time
You
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Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.
Michael Symon
Dinner
Lesson
Every
Cried
Kid
Laughed
Dinner Table
Table
Emotional
Most
Learned
Importantly
Yelled
Bunch
Greek
Being
Where
Connected
Bonded
Sicilian
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
Michael Symon
Good
Food
Important
Think
Recipes
Way
About
More
Only
Point
Open
New
How
Doing
Up
Than
New Way
Just
Should
Cookbook
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 the quality of the food you make.
Michael Symon
Buy
Food
You
Quality
Natural
Better
Organic
Increase
Market
Immediately
Better Things
Make
Go
Going
Store
Grocery
Grocery Store
Farmers
Things
In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.
Michael Symon
Beautiful
Me
Vegetables
Eat
Only
Variety
Weeks
Cleveland
Tightly
Always
Surrounded
Very
Endless
Six
Fortunate
Farms
Even
Season
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 go wrong.
Michael Symon
Crazy
You
Employees
Tell
Run
Slower
Wrong
Like
Around
Always
Go
Person
Gets
Crazy Person
Busier
Should
Cook
Things
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 open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.
Michael Symon
Good
Wife
First
Employees
Gave
Our
Restaurant
Ten
Ten Years
Open
Almost
Opened
Over
Partners
Years
Years Ago
Up
Us
Lucky
Foundation
Second
Liz
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 ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
Michael Symon
Time
You
Cheese
Rest
Sense
Down
Other
Several
Bit
Out
No Sense
Had
Like
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Makes
Culinary
Octopus
Up
Goes
Gets
Whatsoever
Little
Little Bit
Ingredients
Your
Chopped
Each
Zone
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, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.
Michael Symon
Love
Saying
Me
People
Mind
Some People
Lost
Monday
Bad
Eat
Some
About
Week
Days
Like
Look
Talk
Known
Because
Beef
Six
Six Days
Pork
I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.
Michael Symon
Fatter
Firm
Firm Believer
Stuff
Making
Up
American
Packaged
Them
Believer
Buying
I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
Michael Symon
Understanding
About
Make
Pastry
Bones
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 they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.
Michael Symon
Love
Time
Food
Me
People
Own
Intimidated
Say
Out
TV
Eating
About
Network
Food Network
Kitchen
Come
Know
Up
Oh
Afraid
Where
Them
Ask
Really
Cook
They Say
Start
Watch
Watching
Watching Tv
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 eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.
Michael Symon
Day
Home
Great
Family
You
Age
Parents
Sit
Down
Living
Local
Kid
Out
Possible
Diner
Eat
Area
Day And Age
Support
Always
Still
Did
Same
Going
Places
Your
Fast-Paced
With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.
Michael Symon
Love
Car
Care
Sense
Think
Able
Fabulous
About
Someone
Direction
Hybrid
Adore
Never
Environment
Stuff
Like
Around
Go
Up
Grew
Who
Things
Muscle
For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
Michael Symon
Time
Home
Able
Case
Longest
Longest Time
Chefs
Were
Get
Anymore
Products
Cooks
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
Michael Symon
Food
Home
Great
Live
More
Make
Goal
Cook
Cooks
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