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 BOURDAINAn ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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 could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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