To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAINDon’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Luck is not a business model.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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’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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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