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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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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
Chef
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Media Personality
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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What will always remain is love, passion and family time.
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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 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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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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Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
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Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.
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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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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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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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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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Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.
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I really want to be a rock star.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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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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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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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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What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.
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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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Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
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Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
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