I learned to recognize failure.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI learned to recognize failure.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINUnder ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAINPeople confuse me. Food doesn’t.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIf 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 BOURDAINSelling out is getting a job.
ANTHONY BOURDAINCream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAINFrightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
ANTHONY BOURDAINOnly desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
ANTHONY BOURDAINHe doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
ANTHONY BOURDAINOur 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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI 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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINDon’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN