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
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. – 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
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. – Mario Batali
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. – Daisaku Ikeda