Home / Authors / Mario Batali

Mario Batali

Mario Batali Quotes

Chef

Mario Batali, born in September 1960, is a renowned Italian-American chef. He is known for his innovative approach to Italian cuisine and has hosted several cooking shows. Batali has opened multiple restaurants worldwide, each showcasing his unique culinary style.

Filter quotes by topic

All Ifs Thinking Cooks Cooking Want Food Kind Different Restaurants Chef Italian Littles Way Eating Moments Bits Book Customers Kids Little Bit

Famous Mario Batali Quotes

“I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Would Be Simple Animal Food Honor Customers Silly Provoking Being Silly Simple Food

Author:Mario Batali

“I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.”

People Thinking Way Want Enjoy Dying Fine Occasions Casual Dining Rare Occasion Fine Dining

Author:Mario Batali

“I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.”

Ifs Thinking Should Can Do Eating Dinner Our Family Lunch End Times Bizarre Spend Time Strangeness Eating Lunch

Author:Mario Batali

“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.”

Thinking Individual Band Apples Restaurants Employee

Author:Mario Batali

“I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.”

Thinking Kind Pure Heat Southern Familiarity Spices Barrels Vinegar Tabasco

Author:Mario Batali

“I've been lucky enough in 20 years in the media to have a nice soap box that put me in a position to describe to an American viewership that Tuscany is different from Umbria, and it's different from Emilia-Romagna and, not that that was news, but it was never presented to them in a way that was, "Hey, look. This is a different plate from that different place." And although we all think of "spaghetti, lasagna, ciao," as what Italy is all about, there's all of this great stuff... I was merely an interpreter. I wasn't the developer of the content.”

Thinking Different Enough Nice Lucky Different Place Interpreter

Author:Mario Batali

“I think any way of getting people into the field by lowering the threshold of the cost to get them to play, is great. That said, there's all these restaurants around that are very popular that have one menu. And they don't even have tables, and they don't even have backs on their chairs. It's not really the experience I'm after, but I'm happy they exist.”

People Thinking Very Popular

Author:Mario Batali

“I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I think it's great. Some of the other guys go around and slag people as a profession. That's not so interesting to me, because it's easy to take down, it's harder to build.”

People Thinking Guy Easy Interesting Profession Philanthropy Other Guys

Author:Mario Batali

“I think the more prominent the actual product in its raw nature is to its final consumer, the more sympathy and likelihood they'll consume it they'll have. Some friends of mine are trying to do these rooftop farms in Brooklyn, and I love that idea. As long as they're using clean water and real soil and creating delicious things by the sun, then brilliant.”

Thinking Trying Long Real Water Brilliant Clean Water

Author:Mario Batali

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Values Passion Add Juice

Author:Mario Batali

“The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.”

Thinking Too Much Food Waste Tradition Cooking Italian Wasting Time Grandma Fresh Food Italian Cooking Thinking Too Much Celery Matriarchs

Author:Mario Batali

“Every Super Bowl, I do different food each quarter from each of the hometowns of the teams competing. So I’m always hoping for cities with a gastronomic soul—not so much Indianapolis or Denver, right? For halftime we have New York hot dogs from Papaya Dog. And at the end of the game I’ve chosen a dessert based on who I think is going to win.”

Thinking Different Soul Ends Games Winning Cities Team Dog New York Hot Chosen Quarters Bowls Competing Dessert Super Bowl Hometown Hot Dog Denver Indianapolis Halftime Papaya

Author:Mario Batali

“I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.”

Thinking I Can Dream Teach Clams

Author:Mario Batali

“There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.”

Thinking Want Art Funny Battle Customers Cooks High Art

Author:Mario Batali

About the Author

Born: September 19, 1960
Known for: Chef
Quotes: 114

Related Topics

Ifs Thinking Cooks Cooking Want Food Kind Different Restaurants Chef Italian Littles Way Eating Moments Bits Book Customers Kids Little Bit

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Similar Authors

Gordon RamsayBrowse related quotes
Wolfgang PuckBrowse related quotes
Julia ChildBrowse related quotes
Marcella HazanBrowse related quotes
Thomas KellerBrowse related quotes
Ferran AdriaBrowse related quotes
CurnonskyBrowse related quotes
Jacques PepinBrowse related quotes
Skye GyngellBrowse related quotes
Emeril LagasseBrowse related quotes