Anthony Bourdain Quotes

“I like anyone who cooks with pride and who likes what they’re doing, who’s cooking with something resembling love and pride, even if they’re not cooking particularly well. I think they’re on the side of the angels.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“AB: I think great chefs evolve that balance between what they themselves can bring, creatively and technically. The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. They understand those things, instinctively if not explicitly. They may not be able to articulate them, necessarily. But they do understand. There’s a lot going on. Ferran Adria, Thomas Keller. There is Mom’s voice in there somewhere. Because without that, it’s a sterile experience. It doesn’t really resonate as powerfully as it could.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Not giving a shit has been a very, very good business model for me.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“why I wanted to go.  I was in love. I was chasing a girl. She went to Vassar. I”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“DB: That’s interesting. Because I work for a company that lives by the mantra of customer obsession.    AB: Yeah, but they know. DB: Do they? AB: Amazon? They know more than the NSA. The NSA is not permitted by law to know anything close to what Amazon knows. “Judging by your past purchases, we think you’d like….” You’re right! Oh my God!”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“If I don’t fuck up I might actually be able to do this for a while. But I always figured I’d be back at brunch, eventually. DB: Brunch being… AB: …the worst case scenario. DB: You really don’t like brunch. AB: I don’t.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview

“My parents struggled to get me into a private school in Englewood, New Jersey, in fourth grade. It was essentially, as I understand it, a feeder school for Vassar. So I applied. My parents really didn’t want me to go there. They knew why I wanted to go.  I was in love. I was chasing a girl. She went to Vassar. I skipped junior year, I accelerated, going to summer school so I could go to Vassar at the same time as her. For no other reason did I go there.”
― David Blum, Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview