Batali Hosts Anti-Hunger Gala With Bankers He Criticized

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Tonight marks the eighth time that chef/entrepreneur Mario Batali has co-hosted the annual Food Bank for New York City gala.

It will be, however, the first since last November, when Batali appeared on a Time magazine panel and compared bankers with Hitler and Stalin for having toppled “the way money is distributed and taken it into their own hands.”