Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINAnd 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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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