Mario Batali

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EXCERPT: Inside Batali/Bastianach Restaurant Empire November 12, 2021

Kim Reed was helping homebound elderly patients as a social worker in the early 2000s when she picked up a part-time hostess job at Babbo, the Greenwich Village restaurant at the center of what was Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. She created the ni...

In Search of French Cuisine's Secrets May 29, 2020

Bill Buford has had a storied and variegated career, a mix of high and low and sensitive and almost macho — a career that has twisted gently, like a flamed citrus peel destined for a Negroni.He was born in Louisiana, grew up in California and lived f...