181 Quotes by Mario Batali

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

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.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

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.

The Food Network is getting a little more entertaining than I would have thought a couple years back. They're in 80 million homes now. This is no longer a niche market.

The food at my restaurants is mostly the food of Italy's grandmothers.

The English have been burning everything for so long, and no one paid attention to them. But now there are guys like Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver, and Gordon Ramsey. The London restaurant scene is as vibrant as anywhere in the world-London, Paris, New York.

The ideas come from classic Italian cooking, or any European culture, for that matter. As far as something like the offal menu, Europeans would definitely not throw anything away, and the use of the head or the liver or the kidneys is part of their quotidian experience.

The Four Seasons wanted me to become the chef, and I didn't feel that at age 28 I was ready to become the chef.