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 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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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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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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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