Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThe 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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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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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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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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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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