Kitchen Confidential Quotes - Page 2

• I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Sleep, Physically Fit

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Travel, Hurt

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Admiration And Respect, Like You, Agree

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• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Summer, Jobs, Writing

  "Kitchen Confidential". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2000.

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• There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mind, Finals, No Reservations

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Animal, Thinking, Stressed

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sauce, Sin, Multitudes

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black

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• Good food and good eating are about risk.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Risk, Eating, Good Food

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Excellence, Doe, Rewards

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.235, A&C Black

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• Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Mind, Get Up

  “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - ‘Brooklyn’” by Caroline Framke, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2012.

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• When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Years, Car

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• 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Moving, Philadelphia

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