“And I’m not going to tell you here how to live your life. I’m just saying, I guess, that I got very… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. — 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
“So you want to be a chef? You really, really, really want to be a chef? If you've been working in another… — 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 Copy Share Image
Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of… — 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
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant… — 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
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving… — 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 Image
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 Image
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image