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
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. – Mario Batali
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. Im looking for something different. A lot of chefs cookbooks are food as its done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down. – Mario Batali
I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, Howd you like to be on TV? Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a Ready, Set, Cook with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. – Mario Batali
I wouldnt say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways arent relevant to modern life, its just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly. – Jamie Oliver