Mario Batali Wire

Chef, restaurateur, and Seattle scion Mario Batali has signed a deal for two cookbooks. The first one will be written in collaboration with Washington Post writer Jim Webster, and will "look at farmers and their top products in 12 American states across the country – from Maine to Seattle – and will include 70 recipes that utilize these local ingredients." The book will be released in Fall 2014 and the title has not been announced yet. Eater National has the rest of the details. [-EN-]