Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINTo 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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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