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" Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice. "
Anthony Bourdain
Your
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Good
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" I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside. "
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" I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. "
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" I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking. "
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" I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. "
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" I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil. "
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" I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore. "
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" The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. "
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" The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. "
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" In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. "
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" 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. "
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Way
" At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. "
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" If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women. "
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" I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already. "
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Book
Me
" 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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Suddenly
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" One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way. "
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Culture
" Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. "
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Pasta
Doing
Bad
" I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me. "
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" I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. "
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" As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that. "
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" I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants. "
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" I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. "
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" Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment. "
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" You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. "
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" In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. "
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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 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. "
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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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" I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. "
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" I make friends faster and easier than journalists. "
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