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

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

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

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

- 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…

- Anthony Bourdain

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

- Anthony Bourdain

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

- 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,…

- Anthony Bourdain