Quotes by Mario Batali

About Mario Batali:

Mario Francesco Batali is an American chef, writer, restaurateur, and media personality. In addition to his classical culinary training, he is an expert on the history and culture of Italian cuisine, including regional and local variations. Batali co-owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong and Westport, Connecticut. Batali's signature clothing style includes a fleece vest, shorts and orange Crocs. He is also known as "Molto Mario".
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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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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

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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

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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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.

Mario Batali

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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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 it's still as good as what you remember.

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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

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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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You have to live life to its full chorizo.

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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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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 moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

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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. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

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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 article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or weddi...

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Author Bio

  • NameMario Batali
  • DescriptionAmerican chef, writer, restaurateur and media personality
  • BornSeptember 19, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRestaurateur