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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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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
Chef
Cook
Media Personality
Restaurateur
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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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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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 American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
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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 got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
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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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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
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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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