I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — 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
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. — Anthony Bourdain 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
I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food. — 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'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at… — Anthony Bourdain 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
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
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are… — Anthony Bourdain 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 Copy Share Image
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is… — 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
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
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“These are the end products of the Masterminds of Safety and Ethics, bulked up on cheese that contains no cheese, chips fried… — 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
“The food that comes in Tuesday is fresh, the station prep is new, and the chef is well rested after a Sunday… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“A sampler of England's hottest 'chefs' would include a mostly hairless young blond lad named Jamie Oliver, who is referred to as… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that… — 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
“What took me to cooking was that there was something honest about it,” says David Chang. There is no lying in 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
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
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them. — 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… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too. — 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
“Imagine… There’s a roast goose in Hong Kong—Mongkok, near the outskirts of the city, the place looks like any other. But you sink your… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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