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Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.
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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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.
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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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Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.
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I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.
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The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.
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You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.
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