Mario Batali Is Fucking Starving

Jesus said: Feed the poor.
They said: Sorry, Jesus!
We spent $40 million on hate and fear.

“I’m [expletive deleted] starving.”

— Celebrity chef Mario Batali, while discussing his 'Food Stamp' diet, where he and his family are eating on a 'food stamp' budget (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal nutrition assistance program.

Unlike most people on food stamps, Mario Batali has access to a large variety of foods and has both the equipment and education to make the best use of it. This is something we should think about the next time that we're auditing what poor people eat, or their grocery purchases. I mean, this guy prepares food for a living - with every kind of equipment known to man - and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry.

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We spent the day at my sister Amber's home in El Reno. My other sister, Heather, and my mother came, as well. I brought their gifts from New Orleans and we made a Louisiana-style feast with the kits that I brought home with me. Red beans, dirty rice, white rice, creamed cornbread, sausage-and-chicken gumbo, crawfish on the boil with garlic cloves and ears of fresh corn, and crusty French bread, of course. Almost everyone insisted that they wouldn't eat the crawfish, only to dig in once they were done. Rico was the only holdout, as he holds the opinion that crawfish are what you use to catch food. :P

Almost ready!

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