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Few 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.

Anthony Bourdain

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
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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Eat Food People
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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Lie Mistake Yourself
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
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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Change Leave Life Small Travel World Yourself
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
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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Deserve Food Yourself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
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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Food Life Live Myself Worth
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Food Myself Please Power
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Luck is not a business model.
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Business Luck One Liner
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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Feeling Myself

Few 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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