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" I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime. "

Anthony Bourdain

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

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" Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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'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. "

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" If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. "

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" If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me. "

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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 somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. "

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" For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. "

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