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Joe Bastianich
American
Chef
Born:
Sep 17
,
1968
Food
Me
People
Time
Wine
You
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If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.
Joe Bastianich
Good
Food
You
Run
Risk
Weight
Good Workout
Got
Junk
Junk Food
Gaining
Really
Workout
Routine
Eliminate
In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.
Joe Bastianich
Love
Food
You
Yourself
Care
Those
Having
Also
Around
How
Italy
Them
Means
Show
Preparing
Expression
I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
Joe Bastianich
People
Ambition
Design
Think
Tool
Way
Marketing
Paper
Kind
Restaurant
Only
Menu
Importance
Printed
Overlook
Lot
Customer
Communicating
Right
Right Kind
It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.
Joe Bastianich
Time
Family
You
Business
Cooking
Competition
Better
Own
Every
Other
High
One Thing
City
Restaurant
Stay
High-Profile
Deliver
Perform
Execute
Judged
Another
Up
Friends
Family And Friends
Quite
Want
Dishes
Against
Your
Profile
Thing
Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.
Joe Bastianich
Day
Family
Together
Cooking
Whatever
Pleasure
Kids
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Able
About
Something
Given
More
Make
Always
Doing
Any
Being
Them
Ask
Really
Thing
Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.
Joe Bastianich
You
Competitor
Being
Mean
Cook
Necessarily
At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.
Joe Bastianich
Conversation
Respect
Experience
Innovation
Locally
Eye
Out
Classic
Eating
About
Something
Put
Toward
Combination
New
Culinary
Fish
Trying
Different
Dish
Grew
Whether
Forth
Produce
Meat
Each
Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
Joe Bastianich
Art
Wine
Painting
Pricing
Like
I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
Joe Bastianich
Great
Me
Better
Mother
Achieve
Example
Believe
Think
Flying
Though
Brought
Something
Could
Better Things
Instilled
Come
For Example
Because
Always
Still
Coming
Up
Afraid
Anything
Crash
Plane
Many
Even
Belief
Things
I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
Joe Bastianich
Late
Until
Mature
Baritone
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
Joe Bastianich
Me
Together
Mother
Style
Madonna
Russian
Bought
Reminds
Chef
Done
Icon
Her
Portrait
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.
Joe Bastianich
Work
War
People
World
Old
Abandoned
Cities
Bad
Price
Cheap
Volume
Were
Lot
Moved
After
Produce
Then
Paid
Popular
World War
World War II
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
Joe Bastianich
Me
Dinner
Party
Dinner Party
Restaurant
Give
Give Me
Like
Break
I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.
Joe Bastianich
Truth
Time
Doubt
Everything
Those
Definitely
No Doubt
Invented
True
Undeniable
Things
I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
Joe Bastianich
Hope
Food
Reality
Speak
Inspire
Will
Believe
TV
TV Show
Table
Eat
Something
More
Simply
Involved
Another
How
Than
America
Get
Being
Show
Prepared
Brings
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
Joe Bastianich
Family
Nothing
Slightly
Independently
Restaurant
Part
Accomplished
Being
Dysfunctional
Working
Means
Albeit
Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.
Joe Bastianich
Food
Live
Running
Eat
Without
Pasta
Fuel
I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
Joe Bastianich
Family
Made
Eat
Come
Exercise
Walking
Being
Loves
Hard
Even
Fat
The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.
Joe Bastianich
Best
Bronze
Give
Allow
Cling
Texture
Dies
Them
Cut
Rough
Sauce
Beans are a real go-to for me.
Joe Bastianich
Me
Beans
Real
Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?
Joe Bastianich
Funny
You
People
Hero
Wine
Shoes
Funny Thing
Broad
Kind
Wearing
About
Guy
Take
Bottle
He
Blazer
Takes
Look
Sell
Up
Selling
Very
Trying
Certain
Thing
Amount
The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.
Joe Bastianich
Work
You
People
Darkness
Own
Everything
Top
Kind
Responsible
General
More
General Manager
Step
Headaches
League
Like
Reach
Make
Lot
Than
Manager
Agendas
Less
Who
Including
Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.
Joe Bastianich
You
Man
Business
Big
Ranch
Run
Running
Restaurant
Wearing
General
General Manager
Horse
Crown
Facto
Like
Without
Trying
Manager
Owner
Being
Riding
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
Joe Bastianich
Work
You
Crisis
Kind
Run
Properly
Like
Parts
Still
While
Turn
Marathon
Thing
'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
Joe Bastianich
Best
Home
Job
Our
Out
Talent
Amateur
Culinary
America
Cook
Figure
Who
Search
'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
Joe Bastianich
Life
Good
Man
People
Ugly
Some People
My Life
Press
Release
Kind
Bad
Restaurant
Some
Life Lessons
Written
Happened
Story
Might
Lessons
Honest
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