The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
ANTHONY BOURDAINThis, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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To 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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I learned to recognize failure.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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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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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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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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