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… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity,… — Anthony Bourdain Book 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 Adults Copy Share Image
The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing,… — Anthony Bourdain Canada Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain Book Copy Share Image
“Garlic is divine. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about...… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,… — 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 do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was… — Anthony Bourdain Army Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking… — Anthony Bourdain Billionaire Copy Share Image
Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it.… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then… — Anthony Bourdain Company Copy Share Image
The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish… — Anthony Bourdain Care Copy Share Image
“Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron,… — Anthony Bourdain Smell Copy Share Image
I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“if you look someone in the eye and call them a ‘fat, worthless, syphilitic puddle of badger crap’ it doesn’t mean you… — Anthony Bourdain Endearment Copy Share Image
A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,… — Anthony Bourdain Fashion Copy Share Image
You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between… — Anthony Bourdain Barcelona Copy Share Image
“It’s like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you—just… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the… — Anthony Bourdain Character 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
Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the… — Anthony Bourdain Coffee Copy Share Image
My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with… — Anthony Bourdain Body 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 Great society Copy Share Image
If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than… — Anthony Bourdain Feminism Copy Share Image
You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Only one in four has a chance at making it… And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting… — Anthony Bourdain Choice Copy Share Image
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to… — Anthony Bourdain Adventure Copy Share Image
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need.… — 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… — Anthony Bourdain Advantage Copy Share Image
At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the… — Anthony Bourdain Dinner Copy Share Image
My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
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