I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
Anthony BourdainI was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.
Anthony BourdainWhat is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.
Anthony BourdainA proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.
Anthony BourdainIs it a good hot dog? Thatโs all I want to know โฆ I donโt think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, Iโm not your dietitian or your ethicist. Iโm in the pleasure business โฆ. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.
Anthony Bourdain