Batali we have we have a round table in New York about about the C spoon and he was telling me that his average customer
Mario Batali studied TM after being recommended to it by Jerry Seinfeld, of all people.
Mario Batali: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm sure you'll be slightly disappointed that
Mario Batali: "Mario has kids," is what he meant to say. I have kids; I like their friends, we hang out. I'm not so into kids.
Mario Batali: I'm childish is what he meant to say. I'm childish, that's what he meant to say.
Mario Batali: Not yet, just the fucking introduction.
Mario Batali: That's Bucatini All'amatriciana. One of my personal favorites.
Mario Batali: Meaning that as you use an olive oil, if you wanna understand a little bit more about olive oil, right then and there you stop, you put a little bookmark and say,
Mario Batali: There you go.
Mario Batali: Perfect. Nice, huh?
Mario Batali: Sure. I'll describe how and what you should look for when you're buying.
Mario Batali: Bucatini all'amatriciania; that means bucatini in the style of the women from Amatricia. It's spaghetti with a hole. What I have here is guanchiale. If you couldn't
Mario Batali: Any other details?
Mario Batali: Good. All right. Barry, why don't you come up? Let's talk a little bit.
Mario Batali: Well, the shopping list is really cool because what will happen by the end of next Spring, is you can create a shopping list and then you can push a button and it
Mario Batali: The timer just went off.
Mario Batali: Take the pasta out of the pan.
Mario Batali: All right, no problem.
Mario Batali: On your computer. Well, I know that it, I know they can get it on one of your competitors smaller format programs.
Mario Batali: Well, I think food became a significant part of people understanding that not only should they exercise, but they should eat well. I think that information
Mario Batali: That's a good question. I would say that being part-- just being, just being present in the revolution helps a lot. I certainly wasn't the first person on, on
Mario Batali: Stretching out eastward toward Greece and Byzantium.
Mario Batali: Which is pretty cool. 'Cause that's original content. That means that's not in the book. What that is, is you get something that's unique to that, and that's
Mario Batali: I'm not worried. Just so you know -- that's what an aneurysm sounds like.
Mario Batali: Beautiful. Female Audience Member #1: And I'm wondering what should we order?
Mario Batali: That's an excellent question. Have you been there before?
Mario Batali: OK. The best way to understand an Italian meal is to get some antipasti to split up. Then, get one pasta per two or three people and split them. And then everyone get
Mario Batali: There you go.
Mario Batali: And you don't even have to go to the mic, if you just wanna yell it.
Mario Batali: Yes. Female Audience Member #2: So, hi, my name's Phoebe. Thanks for coming again.
Mario Batali: Hi Phoebe.
Mario Batali: Good question. The easiest way to impress one of the purchasers--and the purchasers in our restaurants are always the chefs--we don't have like "purchasers;"
Mario Batali: For me, I use salt for three things.
Mario Batali: He's gonna buy the App. Of course he's gonna buy the App.
Mario Batali: Beautiful. Yes, sir.
Mario Batali: My pleasure.
Mario Batali: 65. Male Audience Member #4: 65. Is there a plan to get more recipes in there, in the future? Is that gonna be an update, or are we gonna have to buy more recipes? How is
Mario Batali: It's just like a cookbook. This is a small cookbook that, for five bucks, is a good deal. The next one, the thought originally was to do an in-store upgrade,
Mario Batali: It'll be a completely separate app. And that's a business decision.
Mario Batali: Well, I mean, if you market it, though, and you still have to buy the first one, some people might just say, "You know what? I don't want the first one."
Mario Batali: Right. Male Audience Member #4: But, all right.
Mario Batali: And I know they're hard to find. No, I mean, you could put it in cups, but tomatoes don't really, I mean, like what you do when you go buy a tomato is you put
Mario Batali: We're talking about fresh tomatoes, I think.
Mario Batali: If we're making pan con tomate, I'm grating it over like this.
Mario Batali: All right.
Mario Batali: It's at Del Posto and Volkswagon's throwing it and Gavin Rossdale from Bush is playing live at Del Posto. I think that is pretty cool. What time's it start, Pam?
Mario Batali: She's kind of squishy. I'll be there at 6:30, just for the record. Yes.
Mario Batali: Braciole. Male Audience Member #5: And I can't find it any, at any good Italian restaurant on the West Coast. So what could you recommend out here as the place to get that?
Mario Batali: Well, there are, of course, my restaurants. And I'm pretty good at that.
Mario Batali: Sure. Male Audience Member #6: Thank you again. My wife actually grew up in Italy and in five minutes, she can whip something up that takes people hours and tastes half as good. She