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

Anthony Bourdain

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" Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. "

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" I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. "

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

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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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" When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's. "

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" 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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" 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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Black And White

" 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. "

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" I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride. "

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

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" It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television. "

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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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" 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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" I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. "

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" What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? "

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

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

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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

" 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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" 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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