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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c50cf8a | 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.. | food jamie-oliver tv-chefs | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 9cd7016 | Global knives, | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 783eb0b | An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins, | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 2aa74b9 | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 2e605ae | 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 -- | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 755138e | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 173290d | your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 0fe2179 | 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.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 56c5471 | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 9ec950b | 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.. | cooking cooks food food-writing kitchen | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 1272ab6 | 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. | eating food food-writing good-food oysters risk | Anthony Bourdain | |
| dfd4d53 | 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 .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 94b5612 | There has ling been a happy symbiotic relationship between kitchen and bar. Simply put, the kitchen wants booze, and the bartender wants food. | bartender booze cooking food food-industry food-writing kitchen relationship restaurant | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 94e7768 | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 46efdf5 | Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . and others. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| d05a371 | 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.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 6e5d103 | 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.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3494df9 | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b65f9dd | So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to. | humor | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 001f8e1 | 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.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 14c7109 | As an art form, cooktalk is, like haiku or kabuki, defined by established rules, with a rigid, traditional framework in which one may operate. | cooking cooktalk food-writing kitchen restaurant | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 5c14fb5 | Whatever had the most shock value became my meal of choice. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 985d565 | There is nothing cool about "used to be cool." | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 399b7e3 | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 9e1eb12 | Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Tommy | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9840ab6 | It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ee4396c | From the unknown, through the unknown, to the unknown. Put your hand into the hand of God. It will be all right. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 94cb737 | Judging a person on how flustered they appear in the face of a shaming is a truly strange and arbitrary way of forming an opinion on someone. * | Jon Ronson | ||
| c0c853f | we have to think about what level of mercilessness we feel comfortable with. | Jon Ronson | ||
| f93b1d7 | The New York Times, baffled by Delaware's obstinacy, tried to argue the state into change in an 1867 editorial. If it had previously existed in [the convicted person's] bosom a spark of self-respect this exposure to public shame utterly extinguishes it. Without the hope that springs eternal in the human breast, without some desire to reform and become a good citizen, and the feeling that such a thing is possible, no criminal can ever return.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a814eb7 | I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don't like. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 4ec11a4 | I'd always wondered why there had been no mention of psychopaths in the DSM. It turned out, Spitzer told me, that there had indeed been a backstage schism--between Bob Hare and a sociologist named Lee Robins. She believed clinicians couldn't reliably measure personality traits like empathy. She proposed dropping them from the DSM checklist and going only for overt symptoms. Bob vehemently disagreed, the DSM committee sided with Lee Robins, .. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 85d6d72 | Only a handful of therapeutic communities inspired by his Massachusetts ones exist in American prisons today. But, as it happens, one of them is situated on the top floor of the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. And it is being quietly run by the former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 89817c6 | Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should concentrate their energies instead on learning how to root them out using his PCL-R Checklist, which he has spent a lifetime refining. His was not the only psychopath checklist around, but it was by far the most extensively used. | Jon Ronson | ||
| fb0b5d4 | So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 35bb4d8 | Social scientists have written papers analyzing Eshelman's every move in there, including the strange detail that the more brutally he behaved, the more American South his accent sounded. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 3a931e0 | Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 0f4ead1 | When shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes, nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. | shame social-media | Jon Ronson | |
| 5c81c0f | Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.' Then he phoned Special Forces. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 746007f | I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top--in the corporate and political worlds--a clinical absence of empathy being a benefit in those environments. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 9219d75 | If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 011611e | When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation." | Jon Ronson | ||
| 3d23ab8 | Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. | freedom internalized shame | Jon Ronson | |
| 0ec48c1 | I saw at least one analysis of the experiment where the author seemed to find it perfectly plausible that if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana. | Jon Ronson |