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 BOURDAINLuck is not a business model.
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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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 know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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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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.
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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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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.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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