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

Anthony Bourdain

Pleasure

Who

Matters

" The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food. "

" You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. "

" I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. "

" 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

" 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. "

" I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. "

" In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. "

" The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. "

" 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. "

Anthony Bourdain

God

Eat

" An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character. "

" I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. "

" 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 just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. "

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

Anthony Bourdain

Going

Somebody

" 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. "

" In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions. "

" I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely. "

" 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. "

" I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. "

" My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. "

" I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing. "

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