Chelsea Clinton owes a lot to Mario Batali, saying he’s been a huge influence on her life. While one might assume they share a love of Crocs and Fanta Pants, Clinton explained it was over a dinner by the superstar chef that her (probably very nervous) husband, Marc Mezvinsky, met her parents, Bill and Hillary, for the first time. “It’s not hyperbole to say I could not imagine my life in New York or really my life in general without Mario,” she told the crowd at Tuesday’s Food Bank for New York Can Do Awards at Cipriani Wall Street. “The first meal I shared with the man I am now very happy to call my husband and the people I am now very happy to call my husband’s in-laws, otherwise known as my parents, was at Babbo. Thankfully, that went well.” Also at the event were Sandra Lee (right), Selita Ebanks, Lauren Bush Lauren, Tom Colicchio, Rachael Ray and Kelly Bensimon. Jon Bon Jovi performed.
Bill and Hillary Clinton met Chelsea’s husband at Mario Batali’s Babbo
