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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAvoid 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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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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Luck is not a business model.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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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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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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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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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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