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I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Easier Faster Friends Journalists Make Than

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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

Topics: Area Basically Confidential Cooks Entertainment Expectation Expose Far Had Kitchen Line Move New New York Philadelphia Restaurant West Would Wrote York

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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Bass Collins Could Else Everything Everything Else Give God Graham Just Larry Like Play Up Wish I Wish

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I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Chefs Evangelical Some Subject Writers

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I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Always Dining Dying Everywhere Fine Least Number Out Really Restaurants Room Small Think Will I Think

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I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Aspect Eating Food Love Masochistic Province Real I Love

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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

Topics: Annoying Been Cynical Even Good Good Thing Most Thing Worst A Good Thing

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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Accent Comforting Guy Love New New York Thing Whom York I Love

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I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Adorable Chef Chefs Cute Did Fine Food Good Good Things Hated He Know Naked School Things Want Whatever Yes You

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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Because Chefs Consensus Decided Eating Food Going Good Good Thing Know Next Next Year Obviously Plate Season Thing Think Year You Your I Think A Good Thing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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