We had been talking for nearly a year. It was very, very closely held, cNN did not know, the camera people did not know. Only a very tight group at [ production company ] Zero Point Zero, my partners, me and very few people at the White House. It was very closely held. At the dinner, Bourdain praised Obama for being.

Anthony Bourdain

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Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult.

Anthony Bourdain

welcome kids children

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

Anthony Bourdain

cheese impossible

My family is very far from normal.

Anthony Bourdain

my-family normal

The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.

Anthony Bourdain

meat add needs

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Anthony Bourdain

cholesterol roof chef

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Anthony Bourdain

brooklyn ignorant careers

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

Anthony Bourdain

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These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

Anthony Bourdain

dope doors children

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

Anthony Bourdain

tendencies these-days thinking

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

Anthony Bourdain

korean-food explosions interest

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

Anthony Bourdain

needs thinking

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.

Anthony Bourdain

silly attention long

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Anthony Bourdain

opinion i-can

A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules.

Anthony Bourdain

burgers can-do

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

Anthony Bourdain

baby kids thinking

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

Anthony Bourdain

real home fun

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

Anthony Bourdain

noise kids children

At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.

Anthony Bourdain

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It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

Anthony Bourdain

just-being normal television

I have the best job in the world.

Anthony Bourdain

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