BOBBY FLAY DOES L.A.
Superstar chef Bobby Flay, 57, takes viewers—along with his daughter, Sophie, 26—on a food tour of the City of Angels in Bobby and Sophie on the Coast (Aug. 22 on Food Network). Here are some fun facts about the Iron Chef, who dropped out of high school at 17 to be a busboy at Joe Allen, a restaurant that’s a favorite with theatergoers.
On Beat Bobby Flay, the Food Network series in which chefs attempt to best him, he has won 238 rounds and lost 150, for a 61.3 percent winning record (as of press time).
Flay’s Maine coon cat Nacho is an Instagram star (@nachoflay) with 294k followers.
He credits the Easy-Bake Oven, a Christmas gift from his parents who saw it on his childhood wish list, for his love of cooking. dent Barack Obama
In 2015, he became the first chef to get a star on the
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