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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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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
Chef
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Seattle
Washington
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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Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.
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