Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
Mario BataliWhen you use it in cooked foods, it changes [the Tabasco flavor] a little bit; it loses a little bit of the bright acid that you love on it, but you get that more cooked heat and chile flavor down.
Mario BataliThe way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
Mario BataliYou have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
Mario BataliWhat I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.
Mario Batali