Famous Quotes

"Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast."

Mario Batali on Food

More quotes about Food

• "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Food

• "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

  Yogi Berra on Food

• "Beware the hobby that eats."

  Benjamin Franklin on Food

More quotes by Mario Batali

• "Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all."

• "Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything."

• "As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible."

• "I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark."

• "The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family."