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Food, it appeared, could be important. It could be an event. It had secrets.
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food
food-writing
secrets
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The whole suggestion is predicated on a damnable fucking lie--the BIG lie, actually--one which Richman himself happily helped create and which he works hard, on a daily basis, to keep alive. See ... it makes for a better article when you associate the food with a personality. Richman, along with the best and worst of his peers, built up these names, helped make them celebrities by promoting the illusion that they cook--that if you walk into..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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I remember it well, because it was such a slap in the face. It was a wake-up call that food could be important, a challenge to my natural belligerence. By being denied, a door opened.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Toast your goddamn muffins.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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A sampler of England's hottest 'chefs' would include a mostly hairless young blond lad named Jamie Oliver, who is referred to as the Naked Chef. As best as I can comprehend, he's a really rich guy who pretends he scoots around on a Vespa, hangs out in some East End cold-water flat, and cooks green curry for his 'mates'. He's a TV chef, so few actually eat his food. I've never seen him naked. I believe the 'Naked' refers to his 'simple, stra..
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food
jamie-oliver
tv-chefs
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Global knives,
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Anthony Bourdain |
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins,
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Anthony Bourdain |
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you'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a gesture as simple and inexpensive as a baseball cap or a T-shirt. The timing was what did it, that he knew. He knew just when to apply that well-timed pat on the back, the strangled and difficult-for-him 'Thank you for your good work' appreciation of your labors.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best --
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Anthony Bourdain |
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This same gag is used by pastry chefs to swirl chocolate or raspberry sauce through creme anglaise and allows them to charge you another three bucks a plate for two seconds of work that you could easily train a chimp to do. But.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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When I finally leave the market, the streets are dark, and I pass a few blocks where not a single electric light appears - only dark open storefronts and coms (fast-food eateries), broom closet-sized restaurants serving fish, meat, and rice for under a dollar, flickering candles barely revealing the silhouettes of seated figures. The tide of cyclists, motorbikes, and scooters has increased to an uninterrupted flow, a river that, given the s..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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I saw how three or four ingredients, as long as they are of the highest and freshest quality, can be combined in a straightforward way to make a truly excellent and occasionally wondrous product.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Who's cooking your food anyway? What strange beasts lurk behind the kitchen doors? You see the chef: he's the guy without the hat, with the clipboard under his arm, maybe his name stitched in Tuscan blue on his starched white chef's coat next to those cotton Chinese buttons. But who's actually cooking your food? Are they young, ambitious culinary school grads, putting in their time on the line until they get their shot at the Big Job? Proba..
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cooking
cooks
food
food-writing
kitchen
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Good food and good eating are about risk. Every once in a while an oyster, for instance, will make you sick to your stomach. Does this mean you should stop eating oysters? No way.
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eating
food
food-writing
good-food
oysters
risk
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Tim and Andy stood there in head-to-toe leather motocross outfits, covered in road dust, behind me in a dark corner of the hotel's dining room. Tim has penetrating pale blue eyes with tiny pupils, and the accent of an Englishman from the north - Newcastle, or Leeds maybe. Andy is an American with blond hair and the wholesome, well-fed good looks and accent of the Midwest. Behind them, two high-performance dirt bikes leaned on kickstands in ..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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There has ling been a happy symbiotic relationship between kitchen and bar. Simply put, the kitchen wants booze, and the bartender wants food.
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bartender
booze
cooking
food
food-industry
food-writing
kitchen
relationship
restaurant
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Anthony Bourdain |
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If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel--as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . and others.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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You are a shit chef!' he would bellow. 'I make two cook like you in the toilette each morning! You are deezgusting! A shoe-maker! You have destroyed my life!. . . You will never be a chef! You are a disgracel Look! Look at this merde . . . merde . . . merde!' At this point, Bernard would stick his fingers into the offending object and fling bits of it on the floor. 'You dare call this cuisine! This . . . this is grotesque! An abomination! Y..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Inarguably, a successful restaurant demands that you live on the premises for the first few years, working seventeen-hour days, with total involvement in every aspect of a complicated, cruel and very fickle trade. You must be fluent in not only Spanish but the Kabbala-like intricacies of health codes, tax law, fire department regulations, environmental protection laws, building code, occupational safety and health regs, fair hiring practice..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Fully feeling the effects of the sake, I was seriously considering burning my passport, trading my jeans and leather jacket for a dirty seersucker suit and disappearing into the exotic East.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.
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humor
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Anthony Bourdain |
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A long-time associate, Beth, who likes to refer to herself as the 'Grill Bitch', excelled at putting loudmouths and fools into their proper place. She refused to behave any differently than her male co-workers: she'd change in the same locker area, dropping her pants right alongside them. She was as sexually aggressive, and as vocal about it, as her fellow cooks, but unlikely to suffer behavior she found demeaning. One sorry Moroccan cook w..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate.
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cooking
cooktalk
food-writing
kitchen
restaurant
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Whatever had the most shock value became my meal of choice.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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There is nothing cool about "used to be cool."
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Anthony Bourdain |
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When a job applicant starts telling me how Pacific Rim-job cuisine turns him on and inspires him, I see trouble coming. Send me another Mexican dishwasher anytime. I can teach him to cook. I can't teach character. Show up at work on time six months in a row and we'll talk about red curry paste and lemon grass. Until then, I have four words for you: 'Shut the fuck up.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is invaluable. As is Nicolas Freleng's The Kitchen, David Blum's Flash in the Pan, the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York, and Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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We are, after all, citizens of the world -- a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's?
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me. How about swordfish? I like it fine. But my seafood purveyor, when he goes out to dinner, won't eat it. He's seen too many of those 3-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the fish's flesh.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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We are, after all, citizens of the world -- a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? ..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform--perfunctorily--on a stage behind the bar.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers, Ramones, Television and so on,
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Anthony Bourdain |
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with skull-and-crossbones painted in chicken blood.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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With my little short-shorts a permanent affront, I was quickly becoming a sullen, moody, difficult little bastard.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Refugees, usually emigres and immigrants
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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your bartender is giving away the bar to under-age girls from Wantagh,
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The
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Anthony Bourdain |
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Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.
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Anthony Bourdain |
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And, well, for most of my life I'd been way too far up my own ass to be of any use to anyone--something that only got worse after Kitchen Confidential. I don't know exactly when the possibility of that changing presented itself--but sometime, I guess, after having made every mistake, having already fucked up in every way a man can fuck up, having realized that I'd had enough cocaine, that no amount in the world was going to make me any happ..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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have your fish guy remove gills, guts and scales and wash in cold water. Rub inside and out with kosher salt and crushed black pepper. Jam a clove of garlic, a slice of lemon and a few sprigs of fresh herb -- say, rosemary and thyme -- into the cavity where the guts used to be. Place on a lightly oiled pan or foil and throw the fish into a very hot oven. Roast till crispy and cooked through. Drizzle a little basil oil over the plate -- you ..
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Anthony Bourdain |
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The fact that she's a girl requires, I believe, extra effort. Dada may have, at various times in his life, been a pig, but Dada surely does not want to ever look like a pig again. This can't possibly be overstated. As the first of two boys, I can't even imagine what it must be like for a little girl to see her dad leering at another of her sex. This creature will soon grow up to be a young woman and that's something I consider every day. I ..
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