Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a… — 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
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order.… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food… — 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
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough in 20 years in the media to have a nice soap box that put me in a position… — 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
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 hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on… — 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
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
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
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
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is… — 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
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
If you could learn how to make a perfect lemon tart then you got a story. If you don't feel like that,… — 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
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
If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I'm pretty confident that the seafood from the Northeastern Atlantic is one of the most delicious and unique in the country, so… — 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
Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile… — 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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