People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a… — 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'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have… — 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
People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better… — 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
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you… — 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… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something… — 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
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
I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm… — 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
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
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
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear… — 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
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write… — 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
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
The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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 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