181 Quotes by Mario Batali

It’s fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

Food is “everyday”-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

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

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.

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.

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we’re kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

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.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food’s going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

There’s a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.