Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“What’s the most frightening thing to a child? The pain of being the outsider, of looking ridiculous to others, of being teased or picked… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“Imagine… There’s a roast goose in Hong Kong—Mongkok, near the outskirts of the city, the place looks like any other. But you sink your… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
