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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. "

Anthony Bourdain

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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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" I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. "

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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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" 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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" Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great. "

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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'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. "

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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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" 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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" Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength. "

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" Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. "

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

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" Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. "

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

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" I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. "

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" Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? "

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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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" 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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" I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. "

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Looking Forward

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

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" I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive. "

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" Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. "

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