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As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

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Anthony Bourdain
Age: 61 †
Born: 1956
Born: June 25
Died: 2018
Died: June 8
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On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.
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You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.
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Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
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