I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.' — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy… — 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
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 certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect… — 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
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
When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body… — 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
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
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great! — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
