Anthony Bourdain Quotes - Page 12

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

My family is very far from normal.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

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.

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

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

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

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

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.

Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

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

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.