I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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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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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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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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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