I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINOpen your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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