Mario Batali quotes

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. (Mario Batali)
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
Mario Batali
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 moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
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Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
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I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
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Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
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Chefs - none of them are young anymore, we're all old.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different.
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns.
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The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. (Mario Batali)
You have to live life to its full chorizo.
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The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
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Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
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Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
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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 restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
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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.
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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
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I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is. (Mario Batali)
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
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I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
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Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
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My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.
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