You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about… — Anthony Bourdain 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 Copy Share Image
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it… — 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
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