Batali Quotes: top 44 famous quotes about Batali

Batali Quotes & Sayings

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Spaghetti is love. — Mario Batali

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. — Mario Batali

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met. — Mario Batali

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. — Mario Batali

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

Food is much better off the hand than the fork. — Mario Batali

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends. — Mario Batali

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. — Mario Batali

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. — Mario Batali

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest. — Mario Batali

What will always remain is love, passion and family time. — Mario Batali

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax. — Mario Batali

I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it. — Mario Batali

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti. — Mario Batali

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. — Mario Batali

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink. — Mario Batali

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

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving. — Mario Batali

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. — Mario Batali

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients. — Mario Batali

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

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. — Mario Batali

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses. — Mario Batali

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. — Mario Batali

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. — Mario Batali

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time. — Mario Batali

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. — Mario Batali

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything. — Mario Batali

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. — Mario Batali

The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business — Mario Batali

I really want to be a rock star. — Mario Batali

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

I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. — Mario Batali

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now. — Mario Batali

You have to live life to its full chorizo. — Mario Batali

Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work. — Mario Batali

Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically. — Mario Batali

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

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

As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid. — Timothy Ferriss

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

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. — Mario Batali