Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

About Anthony Bourdain:

Anthony Michael Bourdain is an American chef, author, and television personality. He is a 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of numerous professional kitchens, including many years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. Though Bourdain is no longer formally employed as a chef, he maintains a relationship with Les Halles in New York. He is widely known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and in 2005 he began hosting the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and The Layover. In 2013, he joined CNN to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
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Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

Anthony Bourdain

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he...

Anthony Bourdain

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You'r...

Anthony Bourdain

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

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

Anthony Bourdain

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Anthony Bourdain

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Anthony Bourdain

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

Anthony Bourdain

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Anthony Bourdain

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

Anthony Bourdain

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Bourdain
  • DescriptionChef and food writer
  • BornJune 25, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCook; Writer; Novelist; Chef; Television Presenter; Essayist