I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAINTravel 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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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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Luck is not a business model.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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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Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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