Regret is something youโve got to just live with, you canโt drink it away. You canโt run away from it. You canโt trick yourself out of it. Youโve just got to own it.
Anthony BourdainThe Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.
Anthony BourdainIโve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cookโs Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasnโt already.
Anthony BourdainIโm a big believer in winging it. Iโm a big believer that youโre never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and Iโm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Anthony Bourdain