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Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards. -- Anthony Bourdain
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For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. -- Anthony Bourdain
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And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I had field experience, a vocabulary and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others. -- Anthony Bourdain
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like slicing bread, thick-skinned tomatoes and so on - but on your full line of vegetables, spuds, meat and even fish. My sous-chef uses his for just about everything. F. Dick makes a good one for about twenty-five bucks. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure -- Anthony Bourdain
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Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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We are, after all, citizens of the world - a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's? -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched. -- Anthony Bourdain
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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things. -- Anthony Bourdain
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[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. -- Anthony Bourdain
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People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice ... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard have given us a deep and important look at the people, places and cuisine that are reshaping what we want for dinner. Koreatown thrills with flavors that will change your life. -- Anthony Bourdain
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My love for chaos, conspiracy and the dark side of human nature colors the behavior of my charges, most of whom are already living near the fringes of acceptable conduct. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Lying in bed and smoking my sixth or seventh cigarette of the morning, I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to do today. Oh yeah, I gotta write this thing. But that's not work, really, is it? It feels somehow shifty and ... dishonest, making a buck writing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult away from Chili's or T.G.I. Friday's is definitely a win for the good guys. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition. -- Anthony Bourdain
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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom ... is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain -- Anthony Bourdain
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In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take. -- Anthony Bourdain
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My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword - that should tell you all you need to know. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Hot, salty, crunchy, and portable, the previously awful-sounding collection of greasy delights can become a Garden of Eden of heart-clogging goodness when you're in a drunken stupor, hungering for fried snacks. At that precise moment, nothing could taste better. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class: -- Anthony Bourdain
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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one. -- Anthony Bourdain
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For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes ... It's in bad taste if nothing else, -- Anthony Bourdain
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To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried. -- Anthony Bourdain
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I Like this quote I dislike this quoteMy house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... -- Anthony Bourdain
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There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia. -- Anthony Bourdain
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie. -- Anthony Bourdain
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My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar. -- Anthony Bourdain
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What is love? Love is eating twenty-four ounces of raw fish at four o'clock in the morning. -- Anthony Bourdain
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And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity - and in many ways, more fondly. August -- Anthony Bourdain
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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. -- Anthony Bourdain
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As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.' -- Anthony Bourdain
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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that? As -- Anthony Bourdain
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The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. -- Anthony Bourdain
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For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. -- Anthony Bourdain
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advertising 'Discount Sushi'. I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi. Yet the place had customers. I wonder, had the sign said 'Cheap Sushi' or 'Old Sushi', if they'd still have eaten there. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. -- Anthony Bourdain
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A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent - the victim's head or your pan - then throw that pan right in the trash. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. -- Anthony Bourdain
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How many'd we do? is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails, -- Anthony Bourdain
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Only one in four has a chance at making it ... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be me. I was going to live. I was the guy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you. -- Anthony Bourdain
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There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. -- Anthony Bourdain
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What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? -- Anthony Bourdain
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I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is. -- Anthony Bourdain
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The menu selections for my brother and me expanded somewhat, to include steak-frites and steak hache (hamburger). -- Anthony Bourdain
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Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me. How about swordfish? I like it fine. But my seafood purveyor, when he goes out to dinner, won't eat it. He's seen too many of those 3-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the fish's flesh. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Without new ideas success can become stale. -- Anthony Bourdain
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform - perfunctorily - on a stage behind the bar. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Toast your goddamn muffins. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? -- Anthony Bourdain
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I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. -- Anthony Bourdain
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People confuse me. Food doesn't. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Cuisine in the world - whole roasted fish, Tuscan-style, for instance - -- Anthony Bourdain
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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
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At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. -- Anthony Bourdain
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So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When do you stop to de-douche? -- Anthony Bourdain
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I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. -- Anthony Bourdain
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What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck? -- Anthony Bourdain
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Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever -- Anthony Bourdain
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I do my very best to avoid shark fin. -- Anthony Bourdain
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As a chef I'm not your dietitian or your ethicist, I'm in the pleasure business. -- Anthony Bourdain
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Luck is not a business model. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The Ecuadorian, Mexican, Dominican and Salvadorian cooks I've worked with over the years make most CIA-educated white boys look like clumsy, sniveling little punks. In -- Anthony Bourdain
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Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. -- Anthony Bourdain
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This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour nap in the afternoon, and at night go out and have that life. Go out and see your friends and eat tapas and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I think fine dining is dying out everywhere ... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful. -- Anthony Bourdain
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When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. And I'll generally take a standup mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. -- Anthony Bourdain
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In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Drink heavily with locals whenever possible. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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He was a crusty old bastard, dressed like my uncle in ancient denim coveralls, espadrilles and beret. He had a leathery, tanned and windblown face, hollow cheeks, and the tiny broken blood vessels on nose and cheeks that everyone seemed to have from drinking so much of the local Bordeaux. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. -- Anthony Bourdain
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1993, my return to the 'bigs'. I'd been -- Anthony Bourdain
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I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Regret is something you've got to just live with, you can't drink it away. You can't run away from it. You can't trick yourself out of it. You've just got to own it. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. -- Anthony Bourdain
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As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward way to make a truly excellent and occasionally wondrous product. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. -- Anthony Bourdain
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To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. -- Anthony Bourdain
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One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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with skull-and-crossbones painted in chicken blood. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. -- Anthony Bourdain
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One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. -- Anthony Bourdain
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind. -- Anthony Bourdain
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New Orleans is a glorious mutation -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Only Texans and Jews understand brisket -- Anthony Bourdain
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Good food and good eating are about risk. -- Anthony Bourdain
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'd learned something ... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... and others. This was valuable information. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. -- Anthony Bourdain
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What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that ... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living
all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. -- Anthony Bourdain
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My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without -- Anthony Bourdain
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One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way. -- Anthony Bourdain
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You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on, -- Anthony Bourdain
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Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' -- Anthony Bourdain
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Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts. -- Anthony Bourdain
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For the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. -- Anthony Bourdain
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of. -- Anthony Bourdain
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I make friends faster and easier than journalists. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Remember, brunch is only served once a week - on the weekends. Buzzword here, 'Brunch Menu'. Translation? 'Old, nasty odds and ends, and 12 dollars for two eggs with a free Bloody Mary'. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Line cooks are the heroes. -- Anthony Bourdain
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If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. -- Anthony Bourdain
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America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. -- Anthony Bourdain
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In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something until it hurts, but I don't want to pass out or vomit in front of people. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too. -- Anthony Bourdain
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It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience. -- Anthony Bourdain
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There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. -- Anthony Bourdain
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At the time of their deaths, three out of five Russian men, I am told, are found to have a blood-alcohol level exceeding what one needs to qualify for a DWI. -- Anthony Bourdain
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People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. -- Anthony Bourdain
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In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. -- Anthony Bourdain
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Selling out is getting a job. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. -- Anthony Bourdain
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People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras. -- Anthony Bourdain
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In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. -- Anthony Bourdain
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And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period. -- Anthony Bourdain
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I learned to recognize failure. -- Anthony Bourdain