57 Best Quotes By Anthony Bourdain, The Celebrated American Chef
Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Luck is not a business model.
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
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 pub.
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . .
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
Good food and good eating are about risk.
Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod.
