I’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 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.
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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.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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