I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAINFew things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night.
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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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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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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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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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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 learned to recognize failure.
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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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Luck is not a business model.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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