The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the… — 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 put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image