Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around… — 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
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from… — 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
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
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is.… — 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
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
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
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
Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every… — 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
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — 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
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's… — 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
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my… — 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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