Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIf 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.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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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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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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Luck is not a business model.
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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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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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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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