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Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Beginning
#Calling
#Fun
#Humor
#Me
I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Chef
#Cute
#Food
#Good Things
#Good
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
#Confidence
#Fear
#Food
#Love
#Pride
The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.
- Anthony Bourdain
#City
#Food
#Good
#Strength
#Unique
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Fear
#Food
#People
#Prejudice
#Proud
I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Country
#Earth
#Food
#Nation
#Zero
I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Good
#Opinion
#Sometimes
#Time
#Wrong
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
- Anthony Bourdain
#America
#Evil
#Fast
#Food
#Great
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Experience
#Food
#Great
#Place
#Way
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
- Anthony Bourdain
#City
#Day
#Food
#Life
#Rest
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
- Anthony Bourdain
#America
#Find
#Food
#Fresh
#Great
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Narrator
#Never
#Objective
#Reliable
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Daughter
#Farmers
#Food
#Organic Food
#People
#See
Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Chef
#Every
#Great
#Know
#Roof
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Feel
#God
#Make
#Matter
#Talking
Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Chef
#Good
#Rice
#Sauce
#Sushi
You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Bad Boy
#Bad
#Boy
#Chef
#Me
I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Afraid
#Idiot
#Like
#Look
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
- Anthony Bourdain
#Chef
#Food
#Good
#Matters
#Pleasure
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Business
#Good
#Humility
#Restaurant
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
#Beautiful
#Day
#Dinner
#Light
#Me
What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
- Anthony Bourdain
#Breakfast
#Make
#Somebody
#Than
#Thing
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
- Anthony Bourdain
#About
#Learn
#Meal
#Someone
#Together
If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Go
#God
#Me
#Rome
#Sin
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Black And White
#Food
#Travel
#Wisdom
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Childhood
#Me
#Time
#Travel
#Way
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Childhood
#Comic
#Early
#Serious
#Teen
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Attractive
#Eating
#Me
#Patience
#People
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Everything
#Food
#History
#Tribe
#Your
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Die
#Food
#Tough
#Understand
#Value
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Car
#Experience
#Food
#Good
#Life
#Music
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.
- Anthony Bourdain
#Barbecue
#Peace
#Road
#Start
#World
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