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.
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody.
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head?
Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
Good food and good eating are about risk.
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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 should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Explore the World Through Anthony Bourdain Quotes part 2
Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food.
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.
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
The food in such places is so simple, so good, that the temptation to wax profound in response is powerful.
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure.
Frito pie, chili, hamburgers, and other kinds of fast food simply became a way of making food, making it up, building an identity, constructing a history for a whole nation, making sense of all the loss and the emptiness and the hunger.
I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books.
I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths with whom I continue to work; the ever-present smells of roasting bones, searing fish, and simmering liquids; the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam.
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
Skills can be learned. Character you either have or don’t have.
All one’s life in a day is like a giant anniversary blow out.
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
I think food, culture, people, and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.
He was a lover of all things Americana and spoke with a voice that was both distinctively New York and earnestly fair-minded. He had a gift for storytelling and the rare ability to make even the most mundane events in far-off places about more than just the food.
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake Faux-irish chain – is a true luxury.
I’m not the sort of person who watches ‘Top Chef’ and screams at the television. My sympathies lie with the contestants.
Under-deserved success is the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
You can keep the food. I’m not going to remember eating at your restaurant years from now. The show is different.
Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman — not an artist. There’s nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen — though not designed by them.
You have to be romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
Tears of others have never bothered me. In the restaurant business it’s all about putting out the best food you can and try getting home with most of your fingers; after that, if the customers like it and sales are good, great. So: tears of others, no bother.
You shall know me by the books I read.
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
I never feared death or dying so much as I feared not living.
Good food and good eating are about risk.
There must be some comfort in cozying up to the familiar and the cinematic, to the ready-made and remonstrative.
I’m on the road 200 days a year. I’m not exactly lazy.
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.
Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying… If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use… It’s a simple fact that animals raised for food suffer, and this causes me deep pain… I really don’t think it’s that controversial.
Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
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