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Joe Bastianich Biography

Joseph Bastianich (born September 17, 1968) is an Italian-American restaurateur, winemaker, author, and television personality. He, along with partners Lidia Bastianich and Mario Batali, owns thirty restaurants worldwide, including Babbo (1 Michelin star) and Del Posto in New York, Carnevino in Las Vegas, and in 2010, expanded the LA eateries Pizzeria and Osteria Mozza Singapore. Earlier that same year, the trio teamed up with Italian retail businessman Oscar Farinetti to bring Eataly, an upscale food and wine market, to New York and Chicago.

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I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

Thinking, Bottles, Firsts, Cru, Comparison

I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

Come, Exercise, Family, Fat, Fats, Made

If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

Eliminate, Junk, Risk, Run, Running, Workout

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

Needs, Night, Professional, Reality, Work

It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

Cities, Competition, High, Quite, Stars, Time

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

Wine, Meals, Stories, Critics, Reviews

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

Business, Home, Queens, Raised, School

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

Care, Expression, Having, Italy, Love, Mean

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Art, Painting, Pricing, Wine

I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?

Ambition, Design, Marketing, People, Thinking, Way

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Eat, Fuel, Live, Pasta, Running

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food.

Cities, Fashion, Food, Kind, People, Sucks

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery
restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

Grandparent, Istria, Sold, Vineyard, Vintage, Wine

Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they don't do anything. And yet they get paid as much as the highest-paid people in the place.

Financial, Maitre, Paid, People, Place, Restaurants

There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U. S. , including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

Chicago, Lucky, Hawaii, Restaurants, 2013

Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.

Ask, Cooking, Kids, Thing, Together

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

Decor, Home, Minimalist, Style, Wife

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

Bronze, Cling, Cutting, Give, Giving, Texture

He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

Father, Gangsta, Reasonableness, Restaurant, Running, Sensibility

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

Athletic, Carbs, Fuel, Needs

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