I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. Mario Batali Read Quote
Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn’t taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that’s loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. Mario Batali Read Quote
If you’re going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you’re going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn’t buy fresh pasta. Mario Batali Read Quote
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn’t the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it’s the working poor. They don’t look any different, they don’t behave any differently, they’re not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that’s it. Mario Batali Read Quote
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. Mario Batali Read Quote
The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great – you order it seven years later, if it’s still on the menu, and it’s still as good as what you remember. Mario Batali Read Quote
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can’t teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is. Mario Batali Read Quote
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. Mario Batali Read Quote
Are we Darwinists – where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. Mario Batali Read Quote
