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
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your foods going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. – Mario Batali
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck – books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article youre reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. – Mario Batali
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. – Mario Batali