29 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Food, Travel and Success

29 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Food, Travel and Success

Last updated on April 12th, 2022 at 07:14 am

Anthony Michael Bourdain, Born 1956 in New York City, USA was a celebrity chef and Author who also travelled the world to explore international cuisine and culture.

He was well known for his books โ€˜Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyโ€™ and โ€˜Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cookโ€™.

For those that love their food we are sure you will also love the following 29 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain:

Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Food

โ€œCream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.โ€

โ€“ Anthony Bourdain

โ€œFood had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œCooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman โ€” not an artist.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œChefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œMisuse of garlic is a crimeโ€ฆPlease, treat your garlic with respect.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œLook at your waiterโ€™s face. He knows. Itโ€™s another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œGood food is very often, even most often, simple food.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

โ€œPeople confuse me. Food doesnโ€™t.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œThe way you make an omelette reveals your character.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œAn ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œYou have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Travel

โ€œTravel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, lifeโ€”and travelโ€”leaves marks on you.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œIf Iโ€™m an advocate for anything, itโ€™s to move .. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œTravel isnโ€™t always pretty. It isnโ€™t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But thatโ€™s okay. The journey changes youโ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œThe journey is part of the experience โ€“ an expression of the seriousness of oneโ€™s intent. One doesnโ€™t take the A train to Mecca.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Success and Life

โ€œLuck is not a business model.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œContext and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in oneโ€™s life.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œUnder โ€˜Reasons for Leaving Last Jobโ€™, never give the real reason, unless itโ€™s money or ambition.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œItโ€™s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œFrightened people become angry peopleโ€”as history teaches us again and again.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œWithout new ideas success can become stale.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Success quotes

โ€œTo have a child is to give fate a hostage.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œPrior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army โ€“ and I always, always want to be ready.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œIโ€™m a big believer in winging it.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œThere is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œYour body is not a temple, itโ€™s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œI donโ€™t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Quotes on respect

โ€œNo one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN

โ€œSkills can be taught. Character you either have or you donโ€™t have.โ€

โ€“ ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Quotes on character

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2 thoughts on โ€œ29 Quotes by Anthony Bourdain on Food, Travel and Successโ€

  1. It is so sad to know even with all of his fame and fortune, that he had to take his own life. You really could not see ir coming. Only GOD knows what pain he was feeling. I used to watch his shows and thought he as cool. ๐Ÿ™

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