I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
ANTHONY BOURDAINGood food and good eating are about risk.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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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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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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’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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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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