Mario Batali Quotes

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

I like simple home-cooked food.

A mother cooking exclusively for her child might be preparing just rice and buttermilk, but it will be immensely tasty. Fast food, on the other hand, may be very tasty, but it has not been prepared exclusively for you, you see.

There's still nothing like a home-cooked meal. Absolutely not.

Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

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.

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.

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.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal.

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

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

I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It's corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It's wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it - add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up.

I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.

A homemade hamburger can be a real treat.

My mom, ever the Italian, made braised chicken with tomato.

My mother makes marvelous meals.

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

I love to shop at the farmer's market or grab something from the garden and roast that.

Besides going to new restaurants, I like to eat home-cooked food made by my mom and sometimes I enjoy Mumbai's local street food also.