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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAn ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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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.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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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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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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Luck is not a business model.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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