Bobby Flay's plate is full on the Food Network Posted By JACQUELINE CUTLER Posted 10 hours ago © ZAP2IT
No one is surprised when the girl fascinated by dissecting animals becomes a scientist. Nor is it a shocker when the boy who could sketch anything grows up to be an artist.
Yet, what can people expect when a kid mouths off to teachers, gets bounced out of schools and loiters incessantly? A future felon? Possibly, or one of the world's best-known chefs: Bobby Flay.
Flay, star of so many Food Network shows, was not on the path to glory while growing up in Manhattan.
"Pick a Catholic high school in the city, I went to it," he says, naming them off in his office in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. "The nuns get the most respect -- they could hit me with an eraser. They should have been pitchers for the Yankees."
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