If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. — 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
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the… — 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
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
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
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working… — Anthony Bourdain 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 Copy Share Image
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to… — 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