• How To Make Toasted Ravioli

    Learn how to make toasted ravioli, a St. Louis, Missouri staple. Join Mario Batali as he explores the cornerstones that have shaped our collective palate.

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  • Thanksgiving Practice Round: All Things Turkey

    Here they are, everyone, your Thanksgiving All-Stars! Take your pick from our biggest, fanciest, juiciest turkeys: Brined, roasted whole, butchered and stuffed — you name it, we've got it. Baste away, reduce those sauces, tent with foil and rest before carving — it’s time for the main event. No matter which one ends up on…

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  • Jamaica's First-Ever Food Festival Is Taking Place In November

    Mention Jamaica to someone and chances are that reef-lined beaches and reggae music come to mind. Then there are those who might recall the odds-defying Olympic bobsled team and, perhaps, a pervasive culture of marijuana consumption. And we’re not necessarily disputing these stereotypes, even if a few of them might be just that — stereotypes. Lesser…

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  • Facebook Has Set Up A New Page Dedicated To All Things Food

    Facebook recently launched a new page devoted exclusively to food, promoting links from your favorite websites, as well as featuring guest chef “takeovers.” And who better to help promote this new social-media platform than famed chef Mario Batali? Everyone’s favorite red-headed Italian-American cook dropped a pot of hot knowledge on the new page yesterday, including…

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  • Stick To Hockey, Guys: The New York Rangers Try Cooking On The Fly

    If the New York Rangers fail to repeat as the NHL's Eastern Conference champions this year, at least the team has stepped up its game in the arena of cooking. In recent weeks, several Rangers players have curiously appeared in cooking videos, effectively trading their usual skate blades for equally sharp kitchen knives. Goaltender Henrik…

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  • Chicken Kiev With Goat Cheese And Chopped Greens Recipe

    Renowned chef Mario Batali's new cookbook, America — Farm To Table, is a celebration of local farmers around the country. Travel from coast to coast with one of the nation's most beloved culinary faces and see how the master uses local fare to everyone's advantage. Ready to show kale the ultimate respect? Stuff it into…

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  • Video: Mario Batali Tracks Ramps In Reverse, From Table To Farm

    How do ramps get into Mario Batali's kitchen? The Crocs-clad chef shows us how in — in reverse — in this soothing video. The camera follows the seasonal sensation as they go from Batali's cutting board out the back door, to the market and off to the fields. Check it out. OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer', '1icXVxbTpV8nc2eiOGit0aRU7xW1qiEd');…

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  • 10 Chef-Endorsed Products That You Will Actually Want To Use

    They’ve conquered primetime and infiltrated airstrips from New York to Narita. Now, the world’s top chefs are taking on the checkout aisle. Forget Emeril’s canned kids’ meals or Rachael’s lasagna luggage. The newest wave of chef-helmed products uses hyper-local ingredients and authentic recipes straight from their illustrious kitchens. If you’re wondering how to make a…

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  • An App That Lets You Post Your Instagram Food Photos...For A Good Cause!

    Let’s be honest for a minute here. You've started to roll your eyes every time one of your friends waves you off to Instagram a picture of lunch — an heirloom tomato salad here or salted caramel macaroon there. But what if you knew that this photo was responsible for providing a meal to someone…

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  • Video: Mario Batali Creates Culinary Magic With Monkfish, Artichokes, Kale, Lemon

    [embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/ZZBQrBcrShM] We miss the glory days of the Food Network, when our after-school snack was paired with episodes of Mario Batali’s groundbreaking, and dearly departed, show Molto Mario. Thankfully, Batali has is back in the stand-and-stir arena with a newly launched show on his growing YouTube channel. Cooks 4, debuting today, asks fans to send…

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  • Kickstart This: The Museum Of Food And Drink Needs Your Help

    The newly established Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is in the early stages of launching a first-of-its-kind exhibit in New York City. The non-profit was founded by Booker & Dax owner Dave Arnold and has begun a Kickstarter campaign to fund: BOOM! The Puffing Gun and the Rise of Breakfast Cereal. The project will…

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  • Did Guy Fieri Eat Pizza With Mario Batali At Roberta's Yesterday Afternoon?

    [caption id="attachment_69731" align="alignnone" width="700" ] A tweet from yesterday afternoon placed Batali and Fieri in Bushwick.[/caption] We were all minding our own business yesterday afternoon when we logged into Twitter and almost chocked on our torta (we were in Chicago). There was a tweet from Mario Batali announcing that he was having lunch at Roberta’s…

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  • Spring Pasta With Blistered Cherry Tomatoes Recipe

    When the asparagus is pencil-thin and abundant, the broccolini is tender and the first cherry tomatoes arrive, we turn our attention to light, healthy pasta dishes to ring in the warm weather. Mario Batali’s outstanding recipe fits the bill with shavings of salty, crumbly ricotta salata cheese on top in this month's issue of Food…

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  • Mario Batali Hospitality Group Honoring Earth Day With...Genovese Basil!

    In honor of Earth Day on Monday, April 22, Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group will promote sustainability at its restaurants, at home and at the New York Botanical Garden. Each of the Group’s restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas will create a special Earth Day dish, highlighting the versatile herb Genovese basil.…

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  • Video: How Mario Batali Was Raised On Odd Cuts Of Meat, Before They Were Trendy

    In this latest video from Nowness, titled Mario's Meats, Mario Batali tells the story behind Chi Spacca, his February opening in Los Angeles (Italian translation: “cleaver”). Crucial Batali lines: 1. “My favorite thing to eat is what somebody else has made.” 2. “You can teach somebody to cook a steak in a hour, but to…

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  • Mario Batali Made An Italian Meats And Cheese Tribute To The Harbowl

    At Food Republic HQ, we’re very much in support of the snack stadium — the building of sports arenas using potato chips, hamburger sliders and various forms of crudités as brick and mortar. In fact, you should check out our How To Make A Snack Stadium tutorial. Now it’s time for celebrity chef and The…

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  • Do All Grocery Stores Need To Learn From Eataly?

    If you’ve ever been to New York City Italian food store and restaurant mega-plex Eataly, you’ve encountered the crowds — walls and walls of well-polished humanity sipping tall cappuccinos and eyeing cold cases of wall prawns and hunks of cured meats being worked in the Berkel slicer. But, apparently according to The New York Times,…

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