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    As long-time Food Bank for New York City supporters, Mario and his wife, Susi, celebrated the city’s major hunger-relief organization at the annual Can Do Awards Dinner last week. Last year Mario and Susi were named Can Do Awards honorees, and on April 9th, they served as the 2014 Honorary Chairs. Here are some amazing highlights…

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Earlier this month, I traveled to Hong Kong with a group of college friends. We stayed with one of my friends’s parents, American ex-pats living in Hong Kong. We built the trip around the Hong Kong Sevens, the event when “Hong Kong lets its hair down” (for more on the Sevens, check this piece in the…

Q: What do you get when you pair burgers, beers and boozy averna milkshakes…in Vegas…this coming May… DURING BON APPETIT’S VEGAS UNCORK’D ?   A: A fun-filled after party with me (Mario Batali) at the newest B&BHG location, B&B Burger and Beer in the Venetian Hotel Casino. wheeeeee!!!   Check out TICKET info and see…

  Fifteen minutes from Rome’s city center atop Rome’s highest hill (appropriately dubbed Monte Mario!) sits the Rome Cavalieri Hotel. The place is a time warp: marble and gold cover the lobby, which leads out to a massive pool deck reminiscent of Vegas’s early developments. If Don Draper went to Rome, this is where he’d…

  This May, the Mario Batali Foundation is going on the road for Swing Session Las Vegas!   Hit the greens with Bon Appétit Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport, along with celebrities and some of my favorite Vegas chefs for what is, without a doubt, the ultimate gastronomic golf event. This time, we’re teaming up with Bon Appetit, so all…