Word: batali
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...Mario Batali grabs a brawny�handful of parsley leaves�and tosses them into the pot without looking. Onstage before a crowd of 400 at the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, Batali is demonstrating how to make fregula soup with clams. It's a simple recipe--fregula is just a kind of pasta--but the soup looks a mess. An intemperate amount of chili flakes has gone in, as has what seemed unadvisedly large pinches of saffron, which has a neat but metallic flavor that can overwhelm. As Batali stumbles over a loose cord onstage, it occurs...
...mere six hours after closing the bar, Batali could be found swimming in the Peninsula's rooftop pool. After he swam, Batali put away crab cake Benedict while constantly checking his Treo for messages and simultaneously answering my questions. Then he was off for two hours of negotiations with retailers to persuade them to place orders for his cookware. Next he did the demo, and afterward he signed autographs for about 250 fans. He also kept up a running banter that had continued all weekend...
...Batali: "No, we partied with the Portuguese." (Lagasse is half Portuguese...
...Batali, who was signing a book for the woman: "Only above the table, madam...
After the book signing, Batali would fly home to New York City. His plane late, he would miss the private HBO screening of The Sopranos at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater. But he would make the premiere of Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical on Broadway. Batali would then have drinks at the wrap party after the play; he got home around 1 a.m. A few hours later, he would get up early to take his boys, 7 and 9, to school. (Batali and his wife Susi Cahn live in Manhattan...