Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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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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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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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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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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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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 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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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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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