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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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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
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Mario Francesco Batali
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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
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We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
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The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
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The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.
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Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
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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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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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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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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
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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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What will always remain is love, passion and family time.
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Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win.
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I really want to be a rock star.
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