546 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.

There are a lot less restraints on it than there used to be. It comes with a parental warning in the US before each segment. For mature audiences only.

Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

They seek, consciously or not, to create a clean zone around their all-important bodies: an area free of dirt, smoke, uncomfortable ideas or pleasure.

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.