Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIt’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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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’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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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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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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I learned to recognize failure.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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