Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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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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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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