Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.
Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that. - Anthony Bourdain
Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.
- Anthony Bourdain
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. - Anthony Bourdain
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. - Anthony Bourdain
Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, y… - Anthony Bourdain
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, y…
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. - Anthony Bourdain
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relative… - Anthony Bourdain
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relative…
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it … - Anthony Bourdain
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it …
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. - Anthony Bourdain
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers,… - Anthony Bourdain
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers,…
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