Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThat without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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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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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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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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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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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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Luck is not a business model.
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