I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainThe bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.
Anthony BourdainThe journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Anthony BourdainOn one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.
Anthony Bourdain