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Mario Batali will be taking a temporary leave from his company amid sexual misconduct allegations.

Mario Batali spins classic Italian ingredients together in one delicious bowl of tomato soup teeming with tender goat cheese gnudi.

Negroni Week, park conservation, bees and much more are at the forefront in this week's acts of food activism. Learn how you can give back.

June is right around the corner and will be dedicated fighting AIDS. Several events are planned in New York City and elsewhere throughout the month.

Chefs and other movers and shakers in the food industry have reacted to the updated travel ban issued by President Donald Trump.

Learn how to make toasted ravioli, a St. Louis, Missouri staple. Join Mario Batali as he explores the cornerstones that have shaped our collective palate.

We can consider bread and beef — roasted or otherwise — a starting point. Add a small detail or a flourish, and a roadmap of America begins to emerge.

Here they are, everyone, your Thanksgiving All-Stars! Take your pick from our biggest, fanciest, juiciest turkeys: Brined, roasted whole, butchered and stuffed — you name it, we've got it. Baste away, reduce those sauces, tent with foil and rest before carving — it’s time for the main event. No matter which one ends up on…

Mention Jamaica to someone and chances are that reef-lined beaches and reggae music come to mind. Then there are those who might recall the odds-defying Olympic bobsled team and, perhaps, a pervasive culture of marijuana consumption. And we’re not necessarily disputing these stereotypes, even if a few of them might be just that — stereotypes. Lesser…

Facebook recently launched a new page devoted exclusively to food, promoting links from your favorite websites, as well as featuring guest chef “takeovers.” And who better to help promote this new social-media platform than famed chef Mario Batali? Everyone’s favorite red-headed Italian-American cook dropped a pot of hot knowledge on the new page yesterday, including…

If the New York Rangers fail to repeat as the NHL's Eastern Conference champions this year, at least the team has stepped up its game in the arena of cooking. In recent weeks, several Rangers players have curiously appeared in cooking videos, effectively trading their usual skate blades for equally sharp kitchen knives. Goaltender Henrik…

Renowned chef Mario Batali's new cookbook, America — Farm To Table, is a celebration of local farmers around the country. Travel from coast to coast with one of the nation's most beloved culinary faces and see how the master uses local fare to everyone's advantage. Ready to show kale the ultimate respect? Stuff it into…

It's pretty hard to find someone who doesn't love Mario Batali's Italian cooking, so it's a bit of a mystery as to why his new cookbook doesn't have the word Italian in the title — or a steaming bowl of pasta and meatballs on the cover. Turns out that the chef and entrepreneur is using…

How do ramps get into Mario Batali's kitchen? The Crocs-clad chef shows us how in — in reverse — in this soothing video. The camera follows the seasonal sensation as they go from Batali's cutting board out the back door, to the market and off to the fields. Check it out. OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer', '1icXVxbTpV8nc2eiOGit0aRU7xW1qiEd');…

In 2012 we introduced you to Heinz Beck, the most famous Roman chef you probably have never heard about. German-born, but living in Italy for decades, Beck runs the three–Michelin star La Pergola in Rome’s opulent Cavalieri Hotel. It’s the only restaurant to be awarded the big three and, as we find out in this…

They’ve conquered primetime and infiltrated airstrips from New York to Narita. Now, the world’s top chefs are taking on the checkout aisle. Forget Emeril’s canned kids’ meals or Rachael’s lasagna luggage. The newest wave of chef-helmed products uses hyper-local ingredients and authentic recipes straight from their illustrious kitchens. If you’re wondering how to make a…

Let’s be honest for a minute here. You've started to roll your eyes every time one of your friends waves you off to Instagram a picture of lunch — an heirloom tomato salad here or salted caramel macaroon there. But what if you knew that this photo was responsible for providing a meal to someone…

[embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/ZZBQrBcrShM] We miss the glory days of the Food Network, when our after-school snack was paired with episodes of Mario Batali’s groundbreaking, and dearly departed, show Molto Mario. Thankfully, Batali has is back in the stand-and-stir arena with a newly launched show on his growing YouTube channel. Cooks 4, debuting today, asks fans to send…

The newly established Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is in the early stages of launching a first-of-its-kind exhibit in New York City. The non-profit was founded by Booker & Dax owner Dave Arnold and has begun a Kickstarter campaign to fund: BOOM! The Puffing Gun and the Rise of Breakfast Cereal. The project will…

[caption id="attachment_69731" align="alignnone" width="700" ] A tweet from yesterday afternoon placed Batali and Fieri in Bushwick.[/caption] We were all minding our own business yesterday afternoon when we logged into Twitter and almost chocked on our torta (we were in Chicago). There was a tweet from Mario Batali announcing that he was having lunch at Roberta’s…

When the asparagus is pencil-thin and abundant, the broccolini is tender and the first cherry tomatoes arrive, we turn our attention to light, healthy pasta dishes to ring in the warm weather. Mario Batali’s outstanding recipe fits the bill with shavings of salty, crumbly ricotta salata cheese on top in this month's issue of Food…

In honor of Earth Day on Monday, April 22, Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group will promote sustainability at its restaurants, at home and at the New York Botanical Garden. Each of the Group’s restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas will create a special Earth Day dish, highlighting the versatile herb Genovese basil.…

In this latest video from Nowness, titled Mario's Meats, Mario Batali tells the story behind Chi Spacca, his February opening in Los Angeles (Italian translation: “cleaver”). Crucial Batali lines: 1. “My favorite thing to eat is what somebody else has made.” 2. “You can teach somebody to cook a steak in a hour, but to…

At Food Republic HQ, we’re very much in support of the snack stadium — the building of sports arenas using potato chips, hamburger sliders and various forms of crudités as brick and mortar. In fact, you should check out our How To Make A Snack Stadium tutorial. Now it’s time for celebrity chef and The…

If you’ve ever been to New York City Italian food store and restaurant mega-plex Eataly, you’ve encountered the crowds — walls and walls of well-polished humanity sipping tall cappuccinos and eyeing cold cases of wall prawns and hunks of cured meats being worked in the Berkel slicer. But, apparently according to The New York Times,…