Best Quotes by Mario Batali (Top 5)

  1. Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.
  2. There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.
  3. The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
  4. It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.
  5. Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.