I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water. — Anthony Bourdain Anesthetics Copy Share Image
Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle. — Anthony Bourdain Alcohol Copy Share Image
I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens. — Anthony Bourdain Being honest Copy Share Image
I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff. — 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
You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with… — Anthony Bourdain Body Copy Share Image
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with… — Anthony Bourdain Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly… — 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 Advantage Copy Share Image
At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the… — Anthony Bourdain Dinner Copy Share Image
Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of… — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do… — Anthony Bourdain Big world Copy Share Image
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook… — Anthony Bourdain Absence Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“you'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a… — Anthony Bourdain Machiavellian Copy Share Image
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Whachoo want, white boy? Burn cream? A Band-Aid? Then he raised his own enormous palms to me, brought them up real close… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“What took me to cooking was that there was something honest about it,” says David Chang. There is no lying in the… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
“It’s more an affliction than the expression of any high-minded ideals. I watch Mark Bittman enjoy a perfectly and authentically prepared Spanish… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the… — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
“Imagine… There’s a roast goose in Hong Kong—Mongkok, near the outskirts of the city, the place looks like any other. But you… — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
“It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the… — Anthony Bourdain America 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… — Anthony Bourdain Birthday party Copy Share Image
“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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