Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Avoid 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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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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Luck is not a business model.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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