Joe Bastianich Quotes

Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato.

I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.

Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.

I don't like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.

If I eat at the Emporio Armani Caffe, my favorite thing to order is risotto or pasta with tomato sauce in winter; in summer, I prefer a Caprese salad, Parmigiano cheese flakes, or some truly fresh ricotta cheese.

The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.

I love this little family-owned Italian spot called Tep's Villa Roma. It has good home-style food made with love and intention.

Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.