Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
ANTHONY BOURDAINFood had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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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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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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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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