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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
Chef
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Restaurateur
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.
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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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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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The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
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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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Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.
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If I hear something's not quite going right, then I'm there quicker than if I hear something's going wrong.
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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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I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.
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Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.
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I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.
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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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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
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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.
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What will always remain is love, passion and family time.
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