Latest Anthony Bourdain Quotes from Interviews

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• These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Children, Dope, Doors

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Should Have, Guy, Enemy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, Home, Eight

  "Anthony Bourdain: 'Look, it's not normal, what I do.'". Interview with Adrian Lee, www.macleans.ca. October 31, 2016.

• Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Talking, Insulting, Fusion

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, These Days, Tendencies

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Burgers, Can Do

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Meat, Add, Needs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cheese, Dessert, Stilton

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and any idiot can make it in 20 minutes on a hot plate. It's cheap and uses readily available commercial ingredients. And it's delicious. It should be the great American dish - perfect late-night stoner dorm food for college kids on a budget.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kids, Army, Night

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cheese, Impossible

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• My family is very far from normal.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Normal, My Family

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.

  Anthony Bourdain

  House, Kitchen, Dinner

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Real, Home

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Want

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Done

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They will say make it and it will come out perfectly. They should tell you you're probably going to screw it up the first 10 times you make it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Eight, Order, Sitting

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Play, Bass

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Silly, World, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Keith, Shows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Communication, People, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Beans, Rice

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Work Out, Drug, Wells

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Regret, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca