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Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, restaurateur, and media personality. Batali co-owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston, Singapore, Westport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut.

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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.

Making, Menu, Order, Remember, Years

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.

Nice, Beer, Want Something, Spicy, Bloody

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.

Giving, Want, Dinner, Generous, Spend, Time

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.

Germany, Morocco, Pockets, Spain

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

Love Is, Something You Love, Ifs, Work, Day, Love

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1. 99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

Cheap, Hour, Mean, Pack, Smart, Wings

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

Simple, Want, Celebrate, Locality, Known, Celebrates

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

Case, Cases, Guy, Won, Wonder, Wondering

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.

Add, Juice, Passion, Things, Thinking, Value

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

Antidote, Come, Manhattan, Michigan, Relax

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

Practice, Two, Perfect, Love, Activities, Times

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.

Aunts, Children, Cousin, Family, Heritage, Uncles

The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

Difference, Differences, Lists, Long, Real

If you go to Italy and you drive from the airport to the town, there isn't 30 square feet that isn't planted by someone. Even next to the train tracks, they see the joy of the interaction with the planet as integral to the experience. The idea that you can get free arugula just by planting seeds. . . because it will regrow itself the next year. We've come a long way from foraging to now planting. The next step of that will be continuing that expansion of planting and really owning the crops.

Airport, Italy, Joy, Long, Seeds, Track

I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it. . . I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

Chimp, Expression, Mean, Minutes, Teach, Two

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

Summer, Years, Squash, Asparagus, Moments, Year

The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us the good parts about your day, but you also tell us the bad parts about your day. And at the end of that, because you're in a ritual, you remove the pressure of admitting you had a failure that day. And it also takes the wind out of having a great day. I mean, it makes you a little bit more normal all the time. That moment of therapeutic sharing is something that happens in food, that doesn't necessarily happen when you're watching TV.

Day, Great Day, Happens, Mean, Trying

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

Enamel, Eye, Iron, Like, Pouring

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

Family, Growing Up, Seattle, Simple, Single, Weekend

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

Food, Fork, Forks, Hand, Hands

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