I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to… — 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
I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I… — 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
Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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 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
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of… — 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
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 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 couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud… — 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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