Anthony Bourdain quotes - page 5

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. (Anthony Bourdain)

Luck is not a business model.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.

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I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

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But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

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For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

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Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

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Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.

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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

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As a chef I'm not your dietitian or your ethicist, I'm in the pleasure business. (Anthony Bourdain)

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

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When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.

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I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

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I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.

Anthony Bourdain

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

Anthony Bourdain

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

Anthony Bourdain

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Anthony Bourdain

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Anthony Bourdain

When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. (Anthony Bourdain)

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook's Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

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If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

Anthony Bourdain

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Anthony Bourdain

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

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Anthony Bourdain

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Occupation: American Chef
Born: June 25, 1956
Died: June 8, 2018
Quotes count: 211
Wikipedia: Anthony Bourdain

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