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My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Mario Batali

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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
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Seattle
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Mario Francesco Batali
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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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I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it's not a very good thing. It's kind of a blanket for flavor.
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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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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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The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
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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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Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.
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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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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
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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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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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In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I think it's great. Some of the other guys go around and slag people as a profession. That's not so interesting to me, because it's easy to take down, it's harder to build.
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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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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
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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 obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
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You have to live life to its full chorizo.
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