The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
ANTHONY BOURDAINGood food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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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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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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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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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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