Friday, February 6, 2009

Iron Chef Interview

Anyone who knows me knows that cooking shows have always been a part of my life, from Yan Can Cook to Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. However, the 24-hour a day lure of the Food Network has made certain chefs big contributors to my entertainment, including Iron Chef and Food Network favorite Bobby Flay.

Flay and I got a chance to talk a couple of weeks ago when I interviewed him for a celebrity chef profile for the 2009 Charleston Food + Wine Festival official guide, and his persona was open and accommodating during our phone interview. After much coordination by multiple publicists, I simply got a call from him one day at an appointed time, and he just said "Hi, this is Bobby Flay."

We talked about a few subjects but mainly focused on hamburgers, the subject of one of his upcoming demonstrations in Charleston, and a passion of his that he has honed in his new Bobby's Burger Palace restaurants. His restaurants feature an option to "crunchify" any order (add homemade potato chips), but it is the word itself that I find almost as delicious as the concept. Since it's Friday, I urge you to find a way to "crunchify" your day! And you can bet that this great word made it into the final article.