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

— Mario Batali

#endless #everything #food #italian #italian-american

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table. ↗

— Mario Batali

#am #better #end #everyday #everything

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

— Mario Batali

#fun #kids #most #quite #simply

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

#best #delicious #delicious food #dictates #food

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

#castle #family #find #happiest #itself

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cook #cookware #dragon #duke #five

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

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

#book #college #day #different #dirty

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

#dinner #else #even #generous #giving

I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#around #became #before #give #good