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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying…” quote by Mario Batali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ea/mario-batali-4002_american-culture_if-we-can-celebrate-that-in-a-way-that-c_45806.jpg)
