Food Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

— Anthony Bourdain

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

— Anthony Bourdain

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

— Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

— Anthony Bourdain

“The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:”

— Anthony Bourdain

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

— Anthony Bourdain

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

— Anthony Bourdain

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

— Anthony Bourdain

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

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

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish…

— Anthony Bourdain

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

— Anthony Bourdain

“Garlic is divine. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize…

— Anthony Bourdain

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of…

— Anthony Bourdain

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

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

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing,…

— Anthony Bourdain

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never…

— Anthony Bourdain

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and…

— Anthony Bourdain

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts…

— Anthony Bourdain

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Portugal was the beginning, where I began to notice the things that were missing from the average American dining experience. The large…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated…

— Anthony Bourdain

“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

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

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

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who…

— Anthony Bourdain

“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

“So, when I read of a recent study that found that children are significantly more inclined to eat “difficult” foods like liver,…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Male, female, gay, straight, legal, illegal, country of origin—who cares? You can either cook an omelet or you can’t. You can either…

— Anthony Bourdain

“The whole suggestion is predicated on a damnable fucking lie—the BIG lie, actually—one which Richman himself happily helped create and which he…

— Anthony Bourdain

“So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Imagine… There’s a roast goose in Hong Kong—Mongkok, near the outskirts of the city, the place looks like any other. But you…

— Anthony Bourdain

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

— Anthony Bourdain

Good food and good eating are about risk.

— Anthony Bourdain