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Good food and good eating are about risk.

Anthony Bourdain

Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbone, and Pernod.
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Food Ourselves Space Time
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Food Myself One Liner People
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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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
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
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Experiment New Repeat Try
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
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
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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Alone Fake Wonderful

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