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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

#bad #because #beef #days #eat

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

#anymore #case #chefs #cooks #get

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

#better things #buy #farmers #food #go

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

#around #busier #cook #crazy #crazy person

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. ↗

— Michael Symon

#also #any #being #city #cleveland

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. ↗

— Michael Symon

#buying #fatter #firm #firm believer #i

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

#cheese #chopped #comfort #comfort zone #culinary

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met. ↗

— Michael Symon

#closest #closest thing #devil #ever #had

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

#about #adore #around #car #care

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. ↗

— Michael Symon

#always #get #got #granted #great