Bobby Flay on BOBBY FLAY FIT

Well, my relationship with food is an important one, of course, because it's one of my best friends. But it can also be a hazard if I let it, because I'm around food all the time, cooking in the restaurants, cooking at home. It's so important to me that I do actually have to treat it with the respect that it deserves. One of the questions I get asked the most these days is, how do you stay in shape as a chef? Getting yourself started to be healthier, I would say baby steps first. Don't try to accomplish it all in one felt swoop, because it's really hard to do. I think in this country now, we want flavor more than ever. I always say that healthy doesn't taste good. But it can if you utilize things that bring flavor to your dish. You want to have a life that's full. So if you cut out the things that you love just because they're high in calories, that's going to take away from your life. And so I still have ice cream in my life. I just don't eat a pint of it at a time. Well, I think this book is first and foremost, it has interesting, delicious recipes. So that's number one. The fact that they are in a fit or healthy style book doesn't mean that they can't become part of anybody's library when it comes to cookbooks.