I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAnd 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 way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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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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