Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINTo me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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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.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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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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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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