He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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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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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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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Luck is not a business model.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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