Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Scotch on the rocks—they can't fuck that up.

My real guilty pleasure — my really disgusting, shameful pleasure — is the mac and cheese at Popeye's fried chicken.

Why was I not the sort of person, or why was I not seen as the sort of person, that these women could feel comfortable confiding in? I see this as a personal failing.

As somebody who spent 30 years as a chef, of course I'm going to be resistant to the notion that there's any replacement for the texture and musculature and funk of real meat. It doesn't fill me with joy.

I can't see the point, he only talks about himself and he's only interested in himself. I can't see that as being scintillating dinner conversation. Plus he eats his steak well done. I think that really settles it.

It's so different than the aesthetic I grew up with, the society and culture I grew up with. I compared it to taking my first acid trip: Nothing was ever the same for me. I just wanted more of it. If I had to agree to live in one country, or even one city, for the rest of my life, never leaving it, I'd pick Tokyo in a second.