Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAINOpen your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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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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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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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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