All Anthony Bourdain Quotes
- I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had… Anyone
- 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 need… Bars
- I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even… Any
- If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely… Consider
- In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as… Adopted
- Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality… Been
- 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically;… Area
- Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or… Best
- Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a… All
- Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a… America
- One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture… Aspect
- Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of… Asia
- The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have… All
- 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 nurturing them, you're… Calling
- The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for… Biggest
- The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in… Abuse
- There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much… Always Found
- Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It… Actually Takes
- Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would… Answer
- What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's… Bellies