Mario Batali

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

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.