People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
ANTHONY BOURDAINGood food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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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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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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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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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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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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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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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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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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