Anthony Bourdain

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  • Laura Weilerhas quoted9 years ago
    I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able—if called upon to do so—to make them a proper omelet in the morning.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    them and am unworthy, in any case, of doing so. I’m just saying that some of the shit I see some people doing to food on television causes a physical reaction in some deeply buried reptile part of my brain—and that makes me angry.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    A man who, though opposed to vegetarian orthodoxy, is still a reasonable fellow, willing, at least, to listen to the other guy’s point of view
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    I was angry at all the shit he made me think about.

    And I’m still angry.

    But I digress
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    So, I was afraid. Very afraid. Every day and every night and every time I bothered to think about these things—which was a lot, because that’s the way a responsible person with a job who doesn’t have a drug habit was supposed to think about things: realistically.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    I was angry, too, in the usual ways: with my mom for having me, for being stupid enough to love me. With my brother for not being a fuckup like me. With my father for dying
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    I often talk about the “Grandma rule” for travelers. You may not like Grandma’s Thanksgiving turkey. It may be overcooked and dry—and her stuffing salty and studded with rubbery pellets of giblet you find unpalatable in the extreme. You may not even like turkey at all. But it’s Grandma’s turkey. And you are in Grandma’s house. So shut the fuck up and eat it. And afterward, say, “Thank you, Grandma, why, yes, yes of course I’d love seconds.”
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    But I was still angry—in the way, I suspect, that mobs get angry: angry about all the things I didn’t have and (I was sure) I would never have
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    Without work we are nothing.”
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    Once you let employees start drinking in their own place of work—even on their days off—you’ve unleashed the dogs of war. No good can come of it
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