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...understands the concept of synergy: on the back of the NASCAR book you'll find a snapshot of Batali (sunglasses, regal smile, a gold marker in hand for autographs) standing beside NASCAR legend Richard Childress--and next to them is a bottle of wine from the vineyard (called La Mozza) that Batali and Bastianich own in Tuscany...
...from Chicago paying $60,000 for a week on a boat. They would tip you a thousand bucks at the end of the week if they were happy. Which was enough to live in Bodrum for six months.") But his formative cooking experience was apprenticing for no pay at La Volta, a trattoria in the tiny town of Borgo Capanne, Italy...
...La Volta, which is now defunct, Batali learned the basics--handmade pastas; slowly cooked Bolognese sauce; wild mushrooms, greens and berries foraged from the forest floor and served nearly unadorned the same day. In 1993, when Batali helped launch his first restaurant, P̣, he brought that unaffected Italian sensibility to downtown Manhattan. (He also needlessly added an accent mark to the name of Italy's Po River.) "He was doing some things so simple--things like affogato, which is gelato [Italian ice cream] with a shot of espresso in it. It's a classic in Italian restaurants...
...finished versions of new items in his cookware line for the first time. A $100 risotto pan weighing an astonishing 12 lbs. came out first. "Wow," Batali said proudly. "You're not gonna be lifting this up with one hand." But there was bad news: the kitchenware chain Sur La Table wouldn't be buying the pan--"too niche," apparently...
...brought up believing that anything is possible in the home of greatest empire that ever was; if it can be done anywhere, it can be done in Italy, where la vita é bella. But as it turns out, this also applies to politics. Despite the country’s precarious socioeconomic status, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi keeps doing anything and everything he wants in extreme ways that politicians elsewhere would never dare—the Italian way. The year I was born, the Italian recovery from the ashes of World War II reached its climax...