Quotes from Anthony Bourdain

Which is how I found myself in a bathroom full of machine-guns.

life keeps kicking out extra points regardless of how I play it.

Não dá certo ter dois cozinheiros fortemente armados a esmurrar-se no meio da linha por causa de uma situação melindrosa, tendo à volta recipientes cheios de óleo a ferver e facas afiadas como navalhas.

It was the Russia of my dreams and adolescent fantasies that I was looking for: dark, snowy, cold, a moody and romantic place of beauty, sadness, melancholy, and absurdity.

A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.

next thing you know, the Russian tanks are rolling through the suburbs, misusing your womenfolk, and Mr Restaurant Genius is holed up in the bunker thinking about eating his gun.

Desde então tenho visto que praticamente toda a gente no negócio da carne é engraçada – assim como praticamente toda a gente no negócio do peixe não tem graça nenhuma.

chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don't know what they want to eat.

Life is good. I like my job.

If a restaurant is known for steak, and doesn't seem to be doing much business, how long do you think those few orders of clams and mussels and lobster and fish have been sitting in the refrigerator, waiting for someone like you to order it? The key is rotation. If the restaurant is busy, and you see bouillabaisse flying out the kitchen doors every few minutes, then it's probably a good bet.

Os poucos heróis culinários que havia no Dreadnaught eram admirados mais pela sua resistência em combate – medida pelo número de pratos servidos numa noite, quantidade de dor e de calor suportados, número de empregadas comidas e cocktails consumidos sem efeitos aparentes. Esses eram os valores compreendidos e apreciados.

After a while, even the most beautiful scenery threatens to become moving wallpaper—background—but other times, it all seems to come together: the work, the play, all the places I've been, where I am now, a happy, stupid, wonderful confluence of events.

I should put reindeer on our Christmas menu,' I mused out loud. 'Can you picture it? All those crying kids, wondering if that's a chunk of Rudolph or Blitzen lying on their plate?' 'I take it you don't have children,' observed Zamir.

A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.

Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.

On my day off, I rarely want to eat restaurant food unless I'm looking for new ideas or recipes to steal. What I want to eat is home cooking, somebody's anybody's - mother's or grandmother's food. A simple pasta pomodoro made with love, a clumsily thrown-together tuna casserole, roast beef with Yorkshire

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.

You, sir, are a loathsome swine. Too damn ignorant to pour piss from a boot! Your odor offends me and my shell-like ear gapeth to hear thy screams of pain. I insist you avert your face and serve me a libation before I smite your sorry ass with the tip of my boot — you sniveling little cocksucker!

Nairobi means 'cool water' in Maasai.

Oh God, another Sandra Bullock film, another Willis. If I see Helen Hunt squinting at me from a hazy airline screen one more time, I'm opening the emergency door. Being sucked into thin air has got to be preferable to that.

address the problem of keeping all this alive and safe without excluding or marginalizing the people who've lived here for centuries. That is a delicate balance: man and nature;

But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best — the things that drew you in, attracted you in the first place, the things that kept you coming back for more.

I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from sensation to sensation. I was a disgrace, a disappointment to friends and family and myself – and the drugs and the booze no longer chased that disappointment away.