This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThe 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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Luck is not a business model.
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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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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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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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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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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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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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