My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. — 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
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. — 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
I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream. — 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 just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't… — 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
When you use it in cooked foods, it changes [the Tabasco flavor] a little bit; it loses a little bit of the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with… — 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 don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking… — 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
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
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
I think any way of getting people into the field by lowering the threshold of the cost to get them to play,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Even though you'll see gnocchi or linguine everywhere in some of the regions of Italy, each of those chefs has their own… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I think the more prominent the actual product in its raw nature is to its final consumer, the more sympathy and likelihood… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided. — 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
It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti. — 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
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part… — 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
[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
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