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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIt’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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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 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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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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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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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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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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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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