Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThe idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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