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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.

Mario Batali

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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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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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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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Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
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There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.
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I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.
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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
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My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.
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There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
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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 Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.
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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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Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.
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My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
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