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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
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Restaurateur
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.
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Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.
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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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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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I really want to be a rock star.
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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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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
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The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.
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Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
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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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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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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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The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
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My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
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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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You have to live life to its full chorizo.
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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 Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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