Anthony Bourdain’s Insights on Life – Unforgettable Quotes from the Culinary Maverick

The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca. – Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. – Anthony Bourdain

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. – Anthony Bourdain

Lunch is not a meal; it is a respite. – Anthony Bourdain

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life. – Anthony Bourdain

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. – Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. – Anthony Bourdain

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain’s Insights on Life – Unforgettable Quotes from the Culinary Maverick part 2

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

Skills can be taught. Character, you either have it or you don’t have it. – Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund. – Anthony Bourdain

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly; you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. – Anthony Bourdain

I learn a lot about myself by sleeping on other people’s couches. – Anthony Bourdain

Usually, after one beer, I can conquer the world. – Anthony Bourdain

I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you. – Anthony Bourdain

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain

Facing imminent death is harder than steeling yourself to face it. – Anthony Bourdain

Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer. – Anthony Bourdain

Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman—not an artist. There’s nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen—though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. – Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot. – Anthony Bourdain

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well is a wonderful experience. – Anthony Bourdain

The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. – Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. – Anthony Bourdain

Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living. – Anthony Bourdain

The way you make the kitchen your world, it’s astonishing. – Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start. – Anthony Bourdain

I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you. – Anthony Bourdain

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts. – Anthony Bourdain

The way you make an omelette reveals your character. – Anthony Bourdain

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. – Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. – Anthony Bourdain

I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you. – Anthony Bourdain

The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. – Anthony Bourdain

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. – Anthony Bourdain

Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever. – Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. – Anthony Bourdain

Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer. – Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

The way you make the kitchen your world, it’s astonishing. – Anthony Bourdain

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start. – Anthony Bourdain