[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
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — 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
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate… — 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
PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron,… — 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
“I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I had always believed that if somebody who worked with me went home feeling like a jerk for giving their time and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. — 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
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
Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products… — 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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