Michael Symon Quotes

My goal in ‘Live to Cook’ is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

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.

I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

People complain that chefs aren’t at their restaurants anymore, but I don’t think that’s the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they’re not working but they are.

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.

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.