Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThe way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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I learned to recognize failure.
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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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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