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When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Behind Car Confidential Furniture Had Kitchen My Own Never Own Owned Paid Rent Taxes Time Writing Years

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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: America Asia Authentic Cheap Delicious Delicious Food Early Find Food Fresh Get Go Great Latin Latin America Local Markets Places Produce Serving Those Up

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Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Falls Find Greatest Meals Plan Sometimes Through Vacations You

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I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Afraid Idiot Like Look

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In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: America Better Might More New New Orleans Orleans Place Than Uniquely Wonderful

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You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Amount Area Argument Eat Food Great Great Stuff Hong Kong Impeccable Kong Maximum Said Singapore Smallest Stuff Tokyo You

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I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Best Forward Interesting Just Move Move Forward Something Stories Tell Way Write I Can

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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Adopted Cat Essentially Fully Fur Go Guy House Hunt Mean Meat Nature Never Potatoes Really Run Ted Wear Would

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Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Asia Became Boring Certainly Changed Crave Dishes First First Time Flavors Foods Going Kind Lot Love Me Palate Southeast Southeast Asia Spectrum Tasting Time To Love Used Whole

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One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Aspect Challenging Chef Culture Done Everybody Find Food Look New New Way One Of The Things People Rome Show Some Things Way Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1956

Died: June 8th, 2018

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