We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. Anthony Bourdain More Quotes by Anthony Bourdain More Quotes From Anthony Bourdain There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind. Anthony Bourdain kitchen-confidential finals mind I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information. Anthony Bourdain please-me delight inspire For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. Anthony Bourdain light beautiful order Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. Anthony Bourdain perfect together interesting Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion. Anthony Bourdain uplifting beautiful moving To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Anthony Bourdain cheese cooking food Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. Anthony Bourdain salvation race believe I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food. Anthony Bourdain prepared excited proud Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with. Anthony Bourdain nice mean sex The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud of the fact that her food is f---ing bad for you. If I were on at seven at night and loved by millions of people at every age, I would think twice before telling an already obese nation that it's OK to eat food that is killing us. Plus, her food sucks. Anthony Bourdain night america thinking The way you make an omelet reveals your character. Anthony Bourdain cooking character way Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever Anthony Bourdain mistake lying moving Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Anthony Bourdain fake pride people Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably. Anthony Bourdain misanthropic helping But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money. Anthony Bourdain growing-up men thinking Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner. Anthony Bourdain responsibility dog thinking I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things. Anthony Bourdain care people interesting I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary. Anthony Bourdain vacation travel thinking Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you. Anthony Bourdain able reading believe To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. Anthony Bourdain pork meat enemy
