That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAn ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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 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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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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 learned to recognize failure.
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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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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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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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