Chef Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay has been cooking professionally for over 30 years and has opened numerous restaurants across the US. For over 20 years, Mr. Flay has had various programs on Food Network, including Beat Bobby Flay and Iron Chef America. As a proud native New Yorker, he often notes that "the city is my kitchen," and utilizes each region's diverse cuisines, amazing styles and infectious energy as inspiration for his restaurants. Mr. Flay dropped out of high school in 10th grade. He is a graduate of the G.E.D. program from the city of NY and was in the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984.

He was named Rising Star Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation at the age 27 for his work at Mesa Grill in NYC and was inducted as a member of the Who's Who of Cooking in America by the foundation in 2007. In addition, he's received 5 Daytime Emmy awards and, in 2015, was the first ever chef to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Mr. Flay has a twenty-something daughter, Sophie, who does NOT want to be a chef but likes to bring lots of her friends to her dad's restaurants when she's not busy working as a Community Journalist for ABC7 in Los Angeles.

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