Mario Batali and Michael Symon talk with New York Times food writer Julia Moskin - www.timestalks.com. Mario Batali and Michael Symon, two James Beard award-winning chefs and restaurateurs, best-selling cookbook authors, former combatants on the Food Network's "Iron Chef America" and co-hosts of ABC's "The Chew," discuss their culinary careers. In 2010, Del Posto, Mario Batali's latest of many New York restaurants including his flagship Babbo, was the first Italian restaurant in 36 years to receive a four-star New York Times review. In 2009, Michael Symon won the James Beard Foundation's award for Best Chef / Great Lakes for his restaurants in the Midwest.
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