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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
Chef
Cook
Media Personality
Restaurateur
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
Inspirational
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Adults
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The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
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You have to live life to its full chorizo.
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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
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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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What will always remain is love, passion and family time.
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My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.
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Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.
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Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.
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My favorite thing is always a nice, inexpensive draft beer, but if someone wants something a little more complicated than that, then I'd like a Michelada, which is where I take beer and a little bit of either a spicy or not-so-spicy Bloody Mary, mix it like six to one [ratio], so it's kind of a red beer.
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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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One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
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When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.
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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
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I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
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The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.
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The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
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The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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Even though you'll see gnocchi or linguine everywhere in some of the regions of Italy, each of those chefs has their own expression of that which expresses more about the place they were exactly born than it does about trying to be a part of the greater mass. And that's the Italian culture.
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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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