#anthony bourdain quotes

[rrcraft-and-lore]

It's also worldbuilding (stares). Especially if you're only used to a fantasy meals that are very western European.

Food/s grow in certain climates, which means recipes will emulate that.

Spices are used to preserve them in one place where they're abundant vs salt only in others.

Food is a language. It's culture. It is a lot.

And it can be taken for granted. But it's a story in and of itself.

A lot happens over meals -- through them. Bonding, memories, romance and more. Evil schemes, plots, or just good times.

Food is important.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There's an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who've stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, a special understanding of the way a bunch of motley misfits can be a family. Service industry work develops the "soft skills" recruiters talk about on LinkedIn — discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. The work is thankless and fun and messy, and the world would be a kinder place if more people tried it. With all due respect to my former professors, I've long believed I gained more knowledge in kitchens, bars, and dining rooms than any college could even hold."

- Anthony Bourdain

[vintage-tigre]

[quotesengage]

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

Anthony Bourdain

[irishkae]

“I think money is shit. You know… how much you spend on a thing… If I spend a couple thousand dollars on sushi for two, I don’t feel guilty about that. I do find that my happiest moments on the road are not standing on the balcony of a really nice hotel. That’s a sort of bittersweet—if not melancholy—alienating experience, at best. My happiest moments on the road are always off-camera, generally with my crew, coming back from shooting a scene and finding ourselves in this sort of absurdly beautiful moment, you know, laying on a flatbed on those things that go on the railroad track, with a putt-putt motor, goin’ across like, the rice paddies in Cambodia with headphones on… this is luxury, because I could never have imagined having the freedom or the ability to find myself in such a place, looking at such things.

To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”

–Anthony Bourdain

[lets-get-lit]

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

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

[soulinkpoetry]

#anthonybourdain 1956-2018

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Wise men know…..“ All I know is that I know nothing” Socrates

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[dhaaruni]

Anthony Bourdain on Henry Kissinger

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" When I die, I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered. "

- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”

— Anthony Bourdain, In his Final Interview

[Belles-lettres]

[histhoughtslately]

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.”

- Anthony Bourdain

[delicate---bones]

“I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.”

- Anthony Bourdain

[familiarquotation]

In fairy tales and myths, people are warned not to eat from the strange place they've lost themselves in, or they won't be able to leave it. Persephone swallows six pomegranate seeds from the underworld and becomes wedded to Hades forever. In each country I call home, I eat my way into belonging.5

Self Portrait as Daily Sustenance, Ae Hee Lee

5. so often my longing for a kinder world has been a scalded palate, going for another spoonful of soup that won't cool. And yet-

[pop-sesivo]

“Have dinner tonight at a local restaurant. Order the cream sauce. Have a cold beer at 4pm in a nearly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been before. Listen to someone who, at first glance, seems like you have nothing in common. Try the rare steak. Savor an oyster. Order a negroni. Order two. Open yourself up to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you — but toast them anyway. Eat slowly. Tip your server well. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. And enjoy every second of it”

—Anthony Bourdain

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Anthony Bourdain

[quotent-potables]

Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he's not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević

— A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain