The 53-year-old Italian restaurateur is the mastermind behind Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant which was last year named the world's second best restaurant.
And when it comes to the profession he loves, he deeply and profoundly thinks the world can be changed - for the better - with food.
"What you do in the kitchen, you just start thinking and you create recipes that can be (a) social gesture," he says.
He's referring to a series of earthquakes that hit Modena, Italy in 2012 which saw 360,000 wheels of parmigiano damaged and left him with an idea of how he could use food to improve the situation.
"It was a disaster," he says. "During the earthquake hundreds of dairy farms lost years of cheese production in a matter of seconds.
"So I create a recipe in which we were using lots and lots and lots of cheese ... we share the recipe online, we create an event: more than 20,000 people all around the world were cooking this.
"But most of all, we created buzz. So people would start ordering and all these 360,000 wheels of parmigiano were sold out by the end of the year.
"No one lost their job, no one cheese factory closed: that's a social gesture."
For Bottura, he says he wants to have fun when he steps into a kitchen while at the same time pouring his heart and soul into his gourmet creations.
"You know, you can have great food everywhere, millions of restaurants, but it can be much more... it's a compression in edible bites of my passions.
"The secret is leave a little space in your everyday life open for poetry in which you can jump and imagine everything." 
Source: The Feed
