Twenty years ago if you were going to be a cook, it was because you didn't make it in the army. It was the last stop before you were on the street.
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Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.Mario Batali
I travel around and instead of my showing someone how to cook, I walk in with a completely hands-off approach, and they show me their dishes.
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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.
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English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood.
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We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
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In New York, a lot of people come into the restaurant and it's not that they don't want what's on the menu, they just want to flex a little bit. They want to control the situation.
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