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Quotes About Tradition

Most humans who were ever alive lived inside a single culture that had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.
~ Annie Dillard
There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.
~ Annie Dillard
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
~ Anthony Bourdain
As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate.
~ Anthony Bourdain
It feels good knowing you are part of a long and glorious tradition of suffering, insanity, and excess.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
~ Anthony Bourdain
If I lived across the street from this place, I'd quit my job and just hang out here all day, until all the money was gone. Quimet & Quimet is a four-generations-old tapas bar in the El Poble-Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, which relies heavily on that Catalonian tapas bar staple of canned food.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Suddenly and without warning, one of the men stepped around and, with the beast's nether regions regrettably all too apparent, plunged his bare hand up to the elbow in the pig's rectum, then removed it, holding a fistful of steaming pig shit - which he flung, unceremoniously, to the ground with a loud splat before repeating the process.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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.
~ Anthony Bourdain
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
~ Anthony Bourdain
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;
~ Anthony Bourdain
Mexican food is about taking the time to do it right, about hours of slow simmering.
~ Anthony Bourdain
we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is not melted cheese over a tortilla chip. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply 'bro food' at halftime. It is, in fact, old; older even than the great cuisines of Europe and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Así como antes la equitación, el tiro con arco y el don de lenguas se consideraban artes «masculinas» fundamentales, de adquisición imprescindible para todo aspirante a caballero, así debería contemplarse el arte de la cocina.
~ Anthony Bourdain
every chef I've ever met, if you asked them, 'If you had to spend the rest of your life in one country, eating one country's food for the rest of your life, where would that be?' They're all gonna say the same thing: Japan. Tokyo.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There are don'ts: You don't use anything but your fingers. You definitely don't use soy sauce or additional wasabi. It comes the way he says it should be. That's the way you eat it.
~ Anthony Bourdain
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going
~ Anthony Burgess
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-.
~ Anthony Burgess
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. . .
~ Anthony Burgess
Qualcuno deve pur lottare. Abbiamo una grande tradizione di libertà da difendere. Io non appartengo a nessun partito. Quando vedo l'infamia cerco di combatterla. I partiti non significano nulla, la tradizione di libertà è tutto. Oh, certo, la gente comune non se ne preoccupa. Sono pronti a vendere la libertà per una vita più tranquilla. è per questo che devono essere pungolati, pungolati.
~ Anthony Burgess
There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded—
~ Anthony Burgess
The old man at once pulled some chairs over for them to be seated and asked for tea to be served. He also gave an order for rice to be prepared. In a little while, some tables were brought out on which were placed dishes of fried wheat gluten, bean curds, taro sprouts, white radishes, mustard greens, green turnips, fragrant rice, and mallow soup made with vinegar. Master and disciples thus enjoyed a full meal.
~ Anthony C. Yu
Weddings are notoriously depressing affairs.
~ Anthony Powell