#italian

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cooks #could #each #eating #edible

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. ↗

— Mario Batali

#america #any #because #becomes #bread

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

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

#classic #cooking #encyclopedia #i #italian

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#american public #available #delicious #distribution #foods

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. ↗

— Steve Earle

#english #form #guys #imitating #italian

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cheese #culture #food #french #genius

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#come #family #farming #gambling #generally

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cookbook #cooking #foundations #french #italian