It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
ANTHONY BOURDAINContext 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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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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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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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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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