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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’

Anthony Bourdain

And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Food People
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Please Power
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Inspirational One Liner Rise
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Ourselves Space Time
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Dream Reward Understand
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Change Leave Life Small Travel World Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ambition Leave Reason
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Deep Ideas
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Feeling Myself
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

One Liner
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Mind One Liner Place Rest
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Myself Night
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character Skill Yourself
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Experiment New Repeat Try
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Healing Magic Yourself

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’

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