Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It… — 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… — 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
The pendulum of cookery techniques became more significant than the actual experience. And when that happens, the customer's satisfaction becomes secondary to… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste… — 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
There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — 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
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become… — 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
Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between… — 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
The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us… — 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
What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has… — 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
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