Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

by Anthony Bourdain

I believe that the human animal evolved as it did—with eyes in the front of its head, long legs, fingernails, eyeteeth—so that it could better chase down slower, stupider creatures, kill them, and eat them; that we are designed to find and eat meat—and only became better as a species when we learned to cook it.

His father, he says, taught him the lesson that one should “never let your family be afraid while you’re alive.”