Mario Batali Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Eating, Forks

• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Home, Past

• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Knives, Eating, Forks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

• 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.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Lunch, Dinner

  "Mario Batali's Indy restaurant picks". Interview with Liz Biro, www.usatoday.com. November 21, 2015.

• My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

  Mario Batali

  Jobs, Kids, Three

• I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

  Mario Batali

  Eating, Spaghetti, Middle

  Interview with Liz Biro, www.indystar.com. November 21, 2015.

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