It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThe idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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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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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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