Chef Bobby Flay Visits CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today

Finding direction through cooking saved chef Bobby Flay's life, he tells Tracy Smith in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD to be broadcast today, Dec. 21 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.

Growing up, Flay had an early interest in cooking, and not much else, including school. His first job was delivering pizzas, but it was a subsequent job doing grunt work in a restaurant kitchen that led him to discover his true calling. There he could work with his hands and had no books to read or homework to worry about, he says.

"Cooking totally saved my life," Flay tells Smith. "I could have easily gone down a bad road, for sure."

Without a clear career path before he found cooking, Flay says he's not sure what else he would have done. Crime wasn't an option, though some friends took that route, he says. "I mean, how was I going to make a living?" he asks Smith. "What were my skills?"

Today, Flay presides over an empire that includes restaurants, television shows, books, licensed products and more. Flay talks with Smith about his business, his childhood, and what his wife, actress Stephanie March, thinks about his heavy workload.

"I think she'd like me to work a little bit less, for sure," Flay says. "That's never going to change, you know?"

CBS SUNDAY MORNING is broadcast Sundays (9:00-10:30 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.
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