You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
ANTHONY BOURDAINNo one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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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.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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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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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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