Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
ANTHONY BOURDAINI’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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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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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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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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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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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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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I learned to recognize failure.
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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