Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAINHe 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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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