I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.