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On adventure…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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On respect…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On wisdom…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On character…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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On making mistakes…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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On the beauty of the journey…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”
― Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
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On our connection to food…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On business…
Image Credit: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Luck is not a business model.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On being wrong…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On the impact of travel…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
― Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
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On the perfect date…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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On connecting with people…
Image Credit: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock. Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows. “People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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