I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it.… — 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
In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently. — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as… — Anthony Bourdain Abuse Copy Share Image
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I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for… — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college… — Anthony Bourdain Alcohol Copy Share Image
To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things -… — Anthony Bourdain Choices 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 Affair 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
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 Advice Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten… — 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 Business 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… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent… — Anthony Bourdain Book Copy Share Image
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper… — Anthony Bourdain Being Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull… — Anthony Bourdain Children Copy Share Image
“I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found… — Anthony Bourdain Adventure Copy Share Image
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a… — Anthony Bourdain Acting Copy Share Image
“I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from… — Anthony Bourdain Life Copy Share Image
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around… — Anthony Bourdain Around the world Copy Share Image
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before… — 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… — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of… — Anthony Bourdain Competition Copy Share Image
For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and… — Anthony Bourdain Beautiful Copy Share Image
My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to… — Anthony Bourdain Children 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 Chef Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain Cooking Copy Share Image
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