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 Bad experiences Copy Share Image
“I love the saying “Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later. — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain Amusement 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 Adults Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain Book Copy Share Image
“Garlic is divine. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never… — 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
I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try… — Anthony Bourdain Generous Copy Share Image
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small.… — Anthony Bourdain Beautiful Copy Share Image
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and… — Anthony Bourdain Anonymous Copy Share Image
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is… — 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 Food Copy Share Image
“While we're on brunch, how about hollandaise sauce? Not for me. Bacteria love hollandaise. And hollandaise, that delicate emulsion of egg yolks… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The fact that she’s a girl requires, I believe, extra effort. Dada may have, at various times in his life, been a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“If experience teaches us anything, it’s that the very last thing a television audience wants to hear or be reminded of is… — Anthony Bourdain Bad business Copy Share Image
“We had only the bass, some butter and a lemon to work with, but we cooked that sucker up under the tiny… — Anthony Bourdain Aluminum foil Copy Share Image
“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their… — Anthony Bourdain History Copy Share Image
“And, well, for most of my life I’d been way too far up my own ass to be of any use to… — Anthony Bourdain Failure Copy Share Image
“Who drinks here? Office workers, jackets off, tie still on—or the reverse: jacket on, tie off. Restaurant help, nipping out for a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
