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New Orleans is a glorious mutation — Anthony Bourdain

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. — Anthony Bourdain

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that. — Anthony Bourdain

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture. — Anthony Bourdain

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. — Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' — Anthony Bourdain

I think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business. — Anthony Bourdain

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. — Anthony Bourdain

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down. — Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start. — Anthony Bourdain

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. — Anthony Bourdain

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. — Anthony Bourdain

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

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. — Anthony Bourdain

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. — Anthony Bourdain

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. — Anthony Bourdain

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. — Anthony Bourdain

I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel. — Meghan Markle

I Like this quote I dislike this quoteMy house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. — Anthony Bourdain

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it. — Donnie Wahlberg

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. — Anthony Bourdain

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. — 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

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. — Anthony Bourdain

Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. — Anthony Bourdain

It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that? As — Anthony Bourdain

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. — Anthony Bourdain

And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. — Anthony Bourdain

I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste. — Anthony Bourdain

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world. — Anthony Bourdain

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. — Anthony Bourdain

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. — Anthony Bourdain

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently. — Anthony Bourdain

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. — Anthony Bourdain

Writing anything is a treason of sorts. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. — Anthony Bourdain

1993, my return to the 'bigs'. I'd been — Anthony Bourdain

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain

Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take. — Anthony Bourdain

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. — Anthony Bourdain

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer. — Anthony Bourdain

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. — Anthony Bourdain

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever — Anthony Bourdain

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. — Anthony Bourdain

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to. — Anthony Bourdain

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. — Anthony Bourdain

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is. — Anthony Bourdain

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart. — Anthony Bourdain

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. — Anthony Bourdain

I had field experience, a vocabulary and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others. — Anthony Bourdain

I learned to recognize failure. — Anthony Bourdain

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? — Anthony Bourdain

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. — Anthony Bourdain

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. — Anthony Bourdain

I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.' — Anthony Bourdain

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. — Anthony Bourdain

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. — Anthony Bourdain

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. — Anthony Bourdain

When do you stop to de-douche? — Anthony Bourdain

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. — Anthony Bourdain

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind. — Anthony Bourdain

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. — Anthony Bourdain

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience. — Anthony Bourdain

I make friends faster and easier than journalists. — Anthony Bourdain

This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of. — Anthony Bourdain

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher. — Anthony Bourdain

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. — Anthony Bourdain

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. — Anthony Bourdain

I do my very best to avoid shark fin. — Anthony Bourdain

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. — Anthony Bourdain

Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition. — Anthony Bourdain

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. — Anthony Bourdain

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine. — Anthony Bourdain

Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife. — Anthony Bourdain

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

People confuse me. Food doesn't. — Anthony Bourdain

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at. — Anthony Bourdain

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. — Anthony Bourdain

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast. — Anthony Bourdain

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve. — Anthony Bourdain

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot. — Anthony Bourdain

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. — Anthony Bourdain

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him. — Anthony Bourdain

For the rest of my life- to resemble this one: both complex and strangely comforting. — Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. — Anthony Bourdain

Luck is not a business model. — Anthony Bourdain

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle. — Anthony Bourdain

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom. — Anthony Bourdain

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones. — Anthony Bourdain

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

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. — Anthony Bourdain

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? — Anthony Bourdain