38 Mario Batali Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mario Batali

American Chef

Born: Sep 19, 1960

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Related authors: Bobby Flay Christina Tosi David Chang Emeril Lagasse Giada De Laurentiis Julia Child Samin Nosrat Thomas Keller

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. Mario Batali

Spaghetti is love. Mario Batali

Love Spaghetti

You have to live life to its full chorizo. Mario Batali

Life You Live Life Live Full

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. Mario Batali

Family Argument Mark Our Punctuation Would Come Most Greatest Italian Italian Family Door Conversations Use Slamming Expressions Ever Profound

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. Mario Batali

Food Better Everyone Mortar Makes Texture Just Fast

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 wedding cakes or pickles. Mario Batali

You Videos Single Reading Books Apps Runaway Constantly Magazines Entire Web Web Sites Wedding Could Truck Pickles Cakes Like Devoted Subjects Article Sites Want Stories Information Newspaper Even Streaming

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 can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. Mario Batali

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. Mario Batali

Good Great You Remember Seven Later Consistently Menu Part Making Still Years Dish Order Anything Hardest Hardest Part

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. 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. Mario Batali

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami. Mario Batali

Strange Edge Older Other Sliced Eat Seem Head Like Pig Traditional Lot Very Than Any May Cutting Cutting Edge Actually

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 deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. Mario Batali

Food Mediocrity Say Bad Would Deli New Towns Most Accepted New Orleans America York New York Interesting Orleans Two

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. Mario Batali

Food Passion Everything About Lore Italian Italian-American Endless Population

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. Mario Batali

Nurturing Live Living Society Support Where Decide Standard

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

Great Think Dream About Make How Teach

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

Happiness Good Somebody Else Finding Restaurant Eat Something Something Good Learn Although Makes Continuously Really Fulfillment Skills Hard Satisfaction Serving

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense. Mario Batali

You Sometimes Sense Rule Way Thoughtful Out Like Makes Than Taste Just Different Order Them Much Right Things

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. Mario Batali

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table. Mario Batali

Better Everyday Everything Pleasures Table About Only Obsess Well Am Motivated End In The End Hedonistic Reason

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