Michael Symon
Michael Symon
Michael D. Symonis a James Beard Foundation Award-winning American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is seen regularly on Food Network on shows such as Iron Chef America, Food Feuds, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate, as well as Cook Like an Iron Chef on the Cooking Channel and The Chew on ABC. He has also made numerous contributions to periodicals such as Bon Appétit, Esquire, Food Arts, Gourmet, Saveur and O, The Oprah Magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth19 September 1969
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
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.
I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
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.
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 can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.