by Dan Meyers

Mario Francesco Batali was born in 1960 in Seattle and spent his high school years studying in Madrid before attending Rutgers University. He threw himself headfirst into the culinary world after college, and before long he was head chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, and soon after that he opened his first restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village, Po, got his own show on the newly-created Food Network, Molto Mario, and found himself launched into culinary superstardom.

Even if you've watched all his shows and eaten at all his restaurants, we bet that there are still some things you didn't know about this legendary chef. Here are six.

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