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

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

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Amusement, Body
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Simple, Fabulous
Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.78, A&C Black

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Trying, Static
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, A&C Black

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
Food, Cooking, Cheese
Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Cooking, Enemy
Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Anthony Bourdain
Memories, Powerful, Food
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Adventure, Oysters
Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Vegas, Feelings
Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Oil, Lazy
Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.77, A&C Black

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? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Humble, Rocks

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

Anthony Bourdain
Food, Knives

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