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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

Topics: Ethnic Everything Extension Feeling Food Grandma History Inseparable Nationalist Personal Province Region Those Tribe Your

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Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Barbecue May Peace Road Start World World Peace

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You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Learn Lot Meal Share Someone Together You

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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Ability About Bad Chefs Confidence Cooks Decisions Discern Everybody Everyone Everything Fake Fear Food Indifferent Lack Lives Love Made Make No Love People Please Please Everyone Pride Shows Trying Who Without

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What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Breakfast Make Nicer Somebody Than Them Thing You

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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

Topics: Across All Day Beautiful Choose Date Day Dinner Eat Go Intimacy Light Like Me Meal Order Person Room Save Share Then You

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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Almost Aware Daughter Empowered Farmers Feed Food Like More Organic Organic Food People See Small Where Would

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If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Anything Business Good Humility Permanently Pounding Restaurant Restaurant Business You

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You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Bad Bad Boy Been Boy Call Certainly Chef Freak Going Me Out Since Want While You

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Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Chef Complement Dunk Good Mix Rice Sauce Soy Sushi Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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