Mario Batali Quotes

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Mario Batali

Profession : Chef

Birth : September 19, 1960

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.

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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

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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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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

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Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

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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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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.

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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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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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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

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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.

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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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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 - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make 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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The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

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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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I really want to be a rock star.

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My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

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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.

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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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