The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. Mario Batali Read Quote
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. Mario Batali Read Quote
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. Mario Batali Read Quote
To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it’s actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami. Mario Batali Read Quote
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. Mario Batali Read Quote
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. Mario Batali Read Quote
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast. Mario Batali Read Quote
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. Mario Batali Read Quote
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there’s a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense. Mario Batali Read Quote
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. Mario Batali Read Quote
