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Yikes.
It's a big statement, and perhaps worthy of a year and a half long 'mea culpa' tour.
The tour's latest stop is a segment on Bloomberg TV's, 'Titans of the Table', a show that gets a bunch of industry heavy-weights to talk shop over an awesome meal. It airs tonight at 9:00 pm and features Batali as well as Bobby Flay, Tom Colicchio and Rachel Ray.
But for 1:30 all eyes were on Batali as Betty Liu gave him the chance to comment on his anti-banker remarks.
Batali responded by asking her if she'd read the transcript (pro tip: don't do that) and she reminded him that there were quotes everywhere (as you know).
That's when Batali gave did his best to smooth it over, perhaps for the 100th time (from Bloomberg):
"A lot of the New York industry is bankers. And I like them individually...I keep my money in the bank. I love them to keep it safe. But that said, the kind of hullabaloo that it caused and what we call in the industry, the sh*tstorm of press that happened after it, was imminently regrettable."
Interesting that NYC is a big media city too, but journalists probably aren't throwing down nearly as much money on pasta as bankers are, so this is a decent pivot.
Watch the video below: