Mario Batali Quotes

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Order is the key to all problems.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.