Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAINYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Good food and good eating are 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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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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.
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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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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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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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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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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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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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