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Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Accessible Adventure China Experience First Food Foremost Got Great Great Place Hong Kong Kong Place Relatively Town Way Where Wonderful You

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I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Feel God How Jacques Make Matter Much Pretty Settled Shows Talking You I Feel

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I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

~Anthony Bourdain

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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Advocate Animals Factory Farming Industry Like Me Meat Pain See Uncomfortable Very

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Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Artist Cool Doing Fun Get Graphic Graphic Novels Novels Out Page Panel See Something Then Working Write You

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Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Actually Bad Bad Stuff Doing Easier Effort Food Good Just Make Making Much Pasta Places Poor Quite Some Stuff Takes Than Those Understand

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I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Ability Able Alive Around Authority Business Came Chef End Form Journeyman Kicked Other Out Sentence Sheer Weight Whatever World Years

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I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Approve Because Cooking Does Home Italian Love Married To Love Used Wife Woman

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I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Anywhere Anywhere Else Around Brazil Cannot Did Else Even Fish Foods Found Go Other Parts Pounds Prehistoric Region River See Weigh Which You

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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: About Afternoon Car Chinese Collected Daily Daily Life Else Essential Experience Filling Food Gives Good Italians Larger Life Like More Music Nap Part Pleasurable Pleasure Ritual See Sex Something Something Else Spanish Up Vietnamese

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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