Scorpacciata – Mario Batali explains it all
Scorpacciata is a term that means consuming large amounts of a particular local ingredient while it's in season. It's a good way to eat, and it's a word we love to use 'round these parts. We asked...
View ArticleA new breed of butcher touts "vegetable stimulus"
Editor's note: all week, CNN Newsroom, Rick's List and Eatocracy are teaming up to take a look the effects our dining choices have on our minds, bodies and wallets. Tune into CNN Newsroom daily from 9...
View ArticleLunchtime poll - chefs with issues
Top Chef's Tom Colicchio spoke to Congress on behalf of school lunch reform - also a pet issue of Chef Alice Waters. Chef Nathalie Dupree is running for the South Carolina U.S. Senate seat. Chef Rick...
View ArticleBatali in Italian food fight? Not quite.
Click to watch video After opening its doors last year, Eataly has become Manhattan’s newest attraction for Italian food fanatics. However, the gleaming marketplace hasn’t left New York’s historic...
View ArticleBeing Mario Batali is a full-time (and apparently awesome) job
Click to watch video "I will never say, 'That's it! We're perfect!'" ever-exuberant chef and restaurateur Mario Batali tells CNN Money. "The first day you think you're done as a chef, you might as well...
View ArticleBatali vs bankers in dust-up over "Hitler" remarks
Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s recent remarks comparing bankers to “Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys” have landed him in hot pappardelle with the clientele of some of his high-end restaurants. While...
View ArticleWhy chefs yell, according to Mario Batali
Click to watch video On Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali says, "He's a good yeller." Watch the video to find out what our favorite red-headed, Crocs-wearing, seasonally eating chef had to say about hot...
View ArticleMario Batali predicts 2013 food and drink trends
Kate Krader (@kkrader on Twitter) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor. When she tells us where to find our culinary heart's desire, we listen up. It’s the big question: What foods are going to top...
View ArticleBatali, Bourdain, butt-whuppings and Justin Bieber
Coming up this evening at 9, "Piers Morgan Live" sets the table with another fascinating – and in many way delicious – edition of "Guest Host Week," as celebrity chef and television personality Anthony...
View ArticleTipping points: Bourdain, Batali and Ripert
Mario Batali says 20 percent is a standard tip. Eric Ripert is a fan of the easy math on that, and Anthony Bourdain considers it a "sin" to take kitchen mistakes out on the floor staff's tip. (Our pal...
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