Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAvoid 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.
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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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.
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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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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, fishbone, and Pernod.
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Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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