I Don't Put Cream In Any Pasta

When We Opened Babbo, We Were An Indie Band. Now We're Kinda Apple. We Have 19 Restaurants And 2,800 Employees, We Are No Longer Perceived As The Indie Band Although We Think Of Ourselves As The Indie Band, And We Operate Our Restaurants As Individual Indie Bands.

In America, I Would Say New York And New Orleans Are The Two Most Interesting Food Towns. In New Orleans, They Don't Have A Bad Deli. There's No Mediocrity Accepted.

When You Add Just A Little Bit [of Tabasco] At The End, What You Taste Is The Spectrum Between The Cooked Chile Flavor And The Kind Of Nearly Raw, Just Kind Of Fermented Chile Flavor At The End.

I Can Tell In Two Minutes If I Should Hire Someone In The Kitchen. Two Minutes. It's His Desire. It's That Open-eyed, Attentive Expression. If He Doesn't Have It ... I Mean, I Can Teach A Chimp How To Cook Dinner. But I Cannot Teach A Chimp How To Love It.

The Idea Of Having Dinner Together Every Day With Your Family Removes The Pressure From Trying To Explain Everything. You Tell Us The Good Parts About Your Day, But You Also Tell Us The Bad Parts About Your Day. And At The End Of That, Because You're In A Ritual, You Remove The Pressure Of Admitting You Had A Failure That Day. And It Also Takes The Wind Out Of Having A Great Day. I Mean, It Makes You A Little Bit More Normal All The Time. That Moment Of Therapeutic Sharing Is Something That Happens In Food, That Doesn't Necessarily Happen When You're Watching Tv.