Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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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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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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