Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAINUnder ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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