"“vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”


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— Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential)

"No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. "
— Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly)

"So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong. Maybe they didn't make it through high school, maybe they're running away from something-be it an ex-wife, a rotten family history, trouble with the law, a squalid Third World backwater with no opportunity for advancement. Or maybe, like me, they just like it here. "
— Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly)