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I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.
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 could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
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If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.
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If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
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I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.
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Drugs didn't work out too well for me.
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The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.
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I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
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Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.
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Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.
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I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
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For 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.
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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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I do my very best to avoid shark fin.
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My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.
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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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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
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