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.
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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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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 know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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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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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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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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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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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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