Mario Batali Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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 you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

  Mario Batali

  Wedding, Reading, Book

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

• 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

  Dirty, Book, Writing

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

• Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Cooking, Kitchen

• Breakfast is the best time for me to figure out what my kids are doing. Right after you wake them up at breakfast, you pepper them with questions. You can get in there because they're not protecting what they thought was cool: "What happened yesterday?" "Oh, Matthew stole my book and ran away and it was really annoying..." That wouldn't happen after lunch, because their defenses are up. In the morning, if you lull them into a comfortable place, you get more honesty, and that's without being a detective.

  Mario Batali

  Morning, Honesty, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Italian, Cooking

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