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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

Writing

College

Meaning

" There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. "

" 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. "

" You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. "

" It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. "

" I make friends faster and easier than journalists. "

" I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. "

" Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start. "

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

Die

Rest

" I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food. "

Anthony Bourdain

Food

People

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

Quantity

Book

" I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking. "

" I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture. "

" You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian. "

" I do my very best to avoid shark fin. "

" Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' "

" I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period. "

" Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. "

Anthony Bourdain

Much

Pretty

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

" The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. "

" Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. "

Anthony Bourdain

Humor

Names

" Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. "

Anthony Bourdain

Meal

Best

" 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. "

" I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth. "

" I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back. "

" I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. "

" 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. "