When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff. Anthony Bourdain Read Quote
