Entries tagged with 'Mario Batali'
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There's really no sense in being shy about it, we're suckers for pretty much every one of
Mario Batali's cookbooks. Our favorite red-headed Crocs-wearing chef's books are always gorgeous, but really it comes down to the fact that they work. And when we say work, we mean they produce consistently wonderful Italian fare that's rustic yet refined, bold, elegant, and satisfying in a deep and happy way. That same happiness carries over in
Molto Batali. His latest is all about entertaining, organized into monthly menus designed to feed a crowd. Enter to win a copy here.
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We recently invited you all to
ask Mario Batali anything. Really, anything. And you did! We picked 14 of the submitted questions and passed them over to Mario himself to answer. The topics run the gamut from Italian cuisine to wine hangover cures to arm-wrestling Bobby Flay and chainsaws (wait, what?).
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We sit down and chat with three great cooking personalities. Topics cover everything from fatherhood to pies, nasty stomach problems to the infamous Marco Pierre White "Risotto Incident." Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, and Alton Brown are entertaining as always.
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Seems like all the chefs are jumping into the family-meal-as-cookbook game these days. The newest from Mario Batali,
Molto Batali: Simple Family Meals From My Home To Yours, is on sale. We'll be covering it in our
Cook the Book column, but we thought we'd take this opportunity to let you, the Serious Eaters ask Mario the questions
you'd like answered.
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First I should clarify that by "in" I mean, about two-and-some-change minute's worth of Mario Batali's face at the very beginning. But he does have a few lines in
Bitter Feast, the bloody horror flick that somehow went under your radar (imagine that!). It's definitely the first horror film I've seen involving organic, prime grade beef burgers.
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Watching a playful exchange between culinary giants
Mario Batali and
Tom Douglas reminded me of a key ingredient in the making of a great chef: that intangible quality known as
charisma. You can't learn it in cooking school. You can't fake it until you make it. You've either got it or you don't. And those two have got it going on.
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Mario Batali and
Mark Ladner have put together a book that, despite being a restaurant cookbook, incorporates the vegetable-heavy style of Italian eating for an American cooking audience at home. The meals that Batali and Lander purpose in
Molto Gusto are fresh, healthful, and easy to prepare but also rustic, nuanced, and incredibly satisfying.
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Over the weekend I sat down with
Mark Ladner to talk about
Molto Gusto, his newly released cookbook featuring recipes from
Otto the West Village pizzeria that he opened with Mario Batali. We chatted about where he likes to eat, what he cooks at home, and why we should all be eating and enjoying more vegetables.
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Opened in the fall of 2008 by chef
Andy Nusser (opening chef at Babbo) with
Mario Batali and
Joe Bastianich, Tarry Lodge is a less urban incarnation of that team's now-familiar aesthetic. If you're familiar with
Otto in New York's West Village, you'll walk in and feel right at home.
But Tarry Lodge has an energy all its own, as was clear at 1:00 PM on a Tuesday—when the place was packed to the brim.
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Ever stopped and wondered about Mario Batali's gene pool? Well thanks to Faces of America, a new PBS series airing on Wednesday, February 10, with host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., you can know more about his French-Canadian great grandfather (whose last name was LaFramboise, or "raspberry" in French) and his other Italian side. Mario admits he doesn't look super Italian—except maybe his lips and nose, which he describes as Roman and Tuscan. But luckily he grew up in an Irish suburban neighborhood so he didn't get teased for the bright red hair, more for eating oxtails in traditional Italian cuisine. Watch the clip, after the jump...
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