Nancy Silverton, Mario Batali’s partner at L.A.’s Mozza, tells the Los Angeles Times that she lost all of her investments (including, it seems, the $5 million she got from the sale of the La Brea Bakery) in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme: “Now, I'm just like 99% of the world. If I had to retire tomorrow, I could not.” [LAT via Diner’s Journal/NYT]