Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
Quote by Mario Batali
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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
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Mario Batali Quotes
- 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.
- As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's 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.
- The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
- Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
- Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
- My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
- When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
- Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
- Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
- Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
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