Anthony Bourdain Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Chef, Pleasure

• I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, People, Cheese

• Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Giving, Doe, Matter

  "Eat Your Words: Anthony Bourdain on Being Wrong". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 31, 2010.

• 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

  Sex, Naps, Filling Up

  The CBC Interview, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

• Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dog, Responsibility, Thinking

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