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 BOURDAINYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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 learned to recognize failure.
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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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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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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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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 could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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