American - Author | June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018
Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
Anthony Bourdain
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
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I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
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It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
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I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.
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I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
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Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.
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I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
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If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
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I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
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