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" The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. "
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Adventure
Difficult
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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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Your
Rice
Good
" I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil. "
Anthony Bourdain
Brazil
Go
Fish
" I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. "
Anthony Bourdain
Authority
Chef
End
" At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift. "
Anthony Bourdain
People
Best
Gift
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Travel
Food
Black And White
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Fear
Confidence
Decisions
" Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. "
Anthony Bourdain
Childhood
Me
Way
" I make friends faster and easier than journalists. "
Anthony Bourdain
Friends
Than
Easier
" 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
Teen
Serious
Years
" '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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen
Line
Restaurant
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
You
Artist
Cool
" To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing. "
Anthony Bourdain
You
Thought
Places
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Furniture
Car
Kitchen
" What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? "
Anthony Bourdain
Than
Breakfast
Make
" Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. "
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Think
My Life
" If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. "
Anthony Bourdain
Opportunity
You
Work
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Control
My Life
Ride
" Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. "
Anthony Bourdain
Me
Much
Pretty
" I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants. "
Anthony Bourdain
Will
Think
Room
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Me
Tell
Boring
" In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. "
Anthony Bourdain
Better
New Orleans
Place
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Me
Eating
Cheese
" I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it. "
Anthony Bourdain
Control
Going
Like
" I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime. "
Anthony Bourdain
Anytime
Opinion
I Can
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Restaurant
Find
Home
" People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. "
Anthony Bourdain
Become
Vegan
People
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Character
Time
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
You
Say
Proud
" 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. "
Anthony Bourdain
Good
Camera
Always