Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI’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 could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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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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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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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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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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