Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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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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Luck is not a business model.
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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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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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