You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. People… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Italy itself has 21 different micro-regions. You go within each of those regions, there's even super-micro-regions; and the beauty is that when… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Breakfast is the best time for me to figure out what my kids are doing. Right after you wake them up at… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. — Mario Batali Copy Share
[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture… — Mario Batali Copy Share
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another… — Mario Batali Copy Share
Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something… — Mario Batali Copy Share
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in… — Mario Batali Copy Share
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has… — Mario Batali Copy Share
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali Copy Share
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a… — Mario Batali Copy Share
I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I think it's… — Mario Batali Copy Share
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything. — Mario Batali Copy Share
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason… — Mario Batali Copy Share
Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of… — Mario Batali Copy Share
The pendulum of cookery techniques became more significant than the actual experience. And when that happens, the customer's satisfaction becomes secondary to the chef's… — Mario Batali Copy Share
