Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties. - Anthony Bourdain
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. - Anthony Bourdain
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. - Anthony Bourdain
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. - Anthony Bourdain
'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
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing. - Anthony Bourdain
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. - Anthony Bourdain
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. - Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. - Confucius
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