I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days. — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. — Anthony Bourdain Funny Copy Share Image
I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them. — Anthony Bourdain Food Copy Share Image
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. — Anthony Bourdain Adventure Copy Share Image
My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
“Only one in four has a chance at making it… And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting… — Anthony Bourdain Choice 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 Adventure 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 Fashion Copy Share Image
“It’s like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you—just… — 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 Barcelona Copy Share Image
“if you look someone in the eye and call them a ‘fat, worthless, syphilitic puddle of badger crap’ it doesn’t mean you… — Anthony Bourdain Endearment Copy Share Image
A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without… — Anthony Bourdain Animals Copy Share Image
There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of… — Anthony Bourdain About yourself Copy Share Image
I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who… — Anthony Bourdain Ability Copy Share Image
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean,… — Anthony Bourdain Advocate Copy Share Image
There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart… — Anthony Bourdain Chef 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 Artist Copy Share Image
“A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any… — Anthony Bourdain Food 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
The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride… — Anthony Bourdain Adventure Copy Share Image
“context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. I mean, lets face it:when you're eating… — Anthony Bourdain Context Copy Share Image
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community. — Anthony Bourdain Community Copy Share Image
Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. — Anthony Bourdain Admiration Copy Share Image
