That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
Anthony BourdainTags: life food try-new-things
In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap.
Anthony BourdainTags: humor food food-regulation
Good food and good eating are about risk.
Anthony BourdainYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
Anthony BourdainTags: food romance cheese essays
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.
Anthony BourdainTags: travel-writing
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
Anthony BourdainI wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
Anthony BourdainFor a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.
Anthony BourdainTags: humor food cooking memoirs
Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod.
Anthony BourdainDon't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
Anthony BourdainTags: inspirational-attitude
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