Anthony Bourdain

"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."

- Anthony Bourdain

"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."

- 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."

- Anthony Bourdain

"In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many chefs have made personal enemies."

- Anthony Bourdain

"One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way."

- Anthony Bourdain

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

- Anthony Bourdain

""Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.""

- Anthony Bourdain

"Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment."

- Anthony Bourdain

"In the end, the culture we create comes down to the foods we share."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great."

- Anthony Bourdain

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

- Anthony Bourdain

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

- Anthony Bourdain

"Good food is very often, even most often, simple food."

- Anthony Bourdain