Batali On His Film Cameo, Michelin Stars, And Running An Empire

eater.com:

After many failed attempts to sit down with Chef Mario Batali, whose schedule has fewer holes than a malformed sex doll, I finally got few minutes with the man. We met shortly before the beginning of a Magic Martinis & Mario charity dinner, an event Batali was hosting at Del Posto. Something I never realized about Batali is how freckled and fair he is and also how strong his Pac West intonations are. It's almost Vancouverian.

Batali, in trademark orange clogs, shorts and an orange duct tape tie made by his son, Leo, shakes my hand.

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Comments

[thecoffeegod]

09:41 AM on 10/22/2010

Mario can rock the b@st@rd chef thing very hard. Still and all, I'd rather have dinner with him than Gordon Ramsay. At least Mario's tirades haven't been overly documented on commercial television.

[ParkwoodGrange]

01:28 PM on 10/20/2010

He and Bobby Flay irritate the cr*p out of me. I find them both very smug.

[chardonnay48]

12:00 AM on 10/21/2010

He does Come across as being very condescending.

[GerryS]

10:39 PM on 10/19/2010

I've met "Mario" twice---

he isn't a nice person------------

[VerizonCells]

10:19 PM on 10/19/2010

They left out burning the servers in the title.