Posted on 11/10/2011 6:01:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Mario Batali faces a boycott from his restaurants' well-heeled clientele after comments he made about the banking industry Tuesday during a panel discussion.
"The ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys," Batali, 51, said while sitting on a panel concerning Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Forbes.com reposted the remarks, and angry patrons began posting negative reviews of the celebrity chef's restaurants, including Babbo and Del Posto, on the Bloomberg restaurant site, a go-to source for Wall Street diners.
"If you like betrayal, you should go," The Los Angeles Times reported one reviewer posted.
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I used to LOVE watching Justin Wilson!
I have several of his cookbooks, which are as much fun to read as they are for recipes.
Lagasse is okay, but I think he has a huge ego now...
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