Best Mario Batali Quotes
- The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. Behind
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this… All
- 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 the… All
- In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad… Accepted
- My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat… Cherries
- The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and… Consistently
- Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you… Bucks
- We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect… Beautiful
- We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us,… Blackberries
- When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing.… Another Thing
- You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the… Acorn
- Food is much better off the hand than the fork. Better
- 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 to… All
- You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving. Charging
- There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we… Activities
- As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that… Anybody
- I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time. Boy
- Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically. Denver
- Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with… Always Hoping
- Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. Description
- My last meal? Â The food would be much less significant than the company. Company
- I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. Â I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how… Chimp
- There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. Art
- You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to… Bad
- The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. Each