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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
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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
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Mario Francesco Batali
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