Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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I learned to recognize failure.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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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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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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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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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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