Anthony Bourdain Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Giving, Doe, Matter

  "Eat Your Words: Anthony Bourdain on Being Wrong". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 31, 2010.

• We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Suicide, Baby, Blow

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

• On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Emotional, Smell, Giving

  "How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain". www.esquire.com. September 25, 2013.

• The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sex, Naps, Filling Up

  The CBC Interview, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

• I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Other Cultures, Giving

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, Giving, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Giving Up, Play, Wish

• Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dog, Responsibility, Thinking

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