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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| efff1d5 | your bartender is giving away the bar to under-age girls from Wantagh, | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 82034de | 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 | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8272eb4 | Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ced296e | 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.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| fbecaea | 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 .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 293839a | 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 .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b96f0df | the pernicious spread of raw food continues, and its prodigiously farting adherents continue to multiply. They must be stopped. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| eccdc81 | Jacques Pepin's La Technique. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 639545b | 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. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3a6919b | Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 27325b1 | like slicing bread, thick-skinned tomatoes and so on -- but on your full line of vegetables, spuds, meat and even fish. My sous-chef uses his for just about everything. F. Dick makes a good one for about twenty-five bucks. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 67ba1b0 | And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 6898f06 | The menu selections for my brother and me expanded somewhat, to include steak-frites and steak hache (hamburger). | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 163b3b5 | cuisine in the world -- whole roasted fish, Tuscan-style, for instance -- | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| aa8e250 | 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? .. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 5ceecd4 | I'd been the culinary equivalent of the Flying Dutchman too long, living a half-life with no future in mind, just oozing from sensation to sensation. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ab7470a | It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b853c81 | The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class: | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| c8818aa | Just believe me when I tell you that the city is beautiful - and not in the oppressive way of, say, Florence, where you're almost afraid to leave your room because you might break something. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| fa2a333 | What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed ove.. | cooking food food-writing kitchen professional-cooking | Anthony Bourdain | |
| df7bf0d | What's the most frightening thing to a child? The pain of being the outsider, of looking ridiculous to others, of being teased or picked on in school. Every child burns with fear at the prospect. It's a primal instinct: to belong. McDonald's has surely figured this out--along with what specific colors appeal to small children, what textures, and what movies or TV shows are likely to attract them to the gray disks of meat. They feel no compu.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 14c5231 | I'm through being cool. Or, more accurately, I'm through entertaining the notion that anybody could even consider the possibility of coolness emanating from or residing anywhere near me. As any conscientious father knows in his bones, any remaining trace elements of coolness go right out the window from the second you lay eyes on your firstborn. The second you lean in for the action, see your baby's head make that first quarter-corkscrew tu.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3f4c629 | The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let's face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give a huge fuck. The hugest. Everything else--everything--pales. To pretend otherwise, by word or deed, would be a monstrous lie. There will be no more Dead Boys T-shirts. Whom would I be kidding? Their charmingly nihilistic worldview in no way mirrors my own. If Stiv Bators were still alive and put his filthy hands anywhere near m.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3f750fe | I love the saying "Nobody likes a dirty old man or a clean little boy." | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3f95e7a | Is there something fundamentally, ethically ... wrong about a meal so Pantagruelian in its ambition and proportions? Other than the "people are starving in Africa" argument, and the "250,000 people lost their jobs in America last month alone" argument, there's the fact that they must necessarily trim off about 80 percent of the fish or bird to serve that perfectly oblong little nugget of deliciousness on the plate. There's the unavoidable o.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3dc7b00 | Shortcut.' The word filled me with dread. When has a shortcut ever worked out as planned? The word - in a horror film at least - usually precedes disembowelment and death. A 'shortcut' almost never leads to good times. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| aba84d8 | Hot, salty, crunchy, and portable, the previously awful-sounding collection of greasy delights can become a Garden of Eden of heart-clogging goodness when you're in a drunken stupor, hungering for fried snacks. At that precise moment, nothing could taste better. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| e7b6397 | Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention." | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 419c61f | I do have a heart, you see. I've got plenty of heart. I'm a fucking sentimental guy - once you get to know me. Show me a hurt puppy, or a long-distance telephone service commercial, or a film retrospective of Ali fights or Lou Gehrig's last speech and I'll weep real tears. I am a bastard, when crossed, though, no question. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| faa2177 | This book is about street-level cooking and its practitioners. Line cooks are the heroes. | cooking cooks food kitchen | Anthony Bourdain | |
| d143476 | Let ketchup do its job. And don't make "house-made ketchup" either. Why would you do that? If it's not broken, as they say, why the fuck would you fix it?" | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| aeeb71c | How many'd we do?" is the question frequently asked at the end of the shift, when the cooks collapse onto flour sacks and milk crates and piles of dirty linen, smoking their cigarettes, drinking their shift cocktails," | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 2cb411a | I talk about these mysterious forces all the time with my chef cronies. Nothing illustrates them more than the Last Meal Game. You're getting into the electric chair tomorrow morning. They're gonna strap you down, turn up the juice and fry your ass until your eyes sizzle and pop like McNuggets. You've got one meal left. What are you having for dinner? When playing this game with chefs - and we're talking good chefs here- the answers are inv.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| f8e2aae | To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction. What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people? Why would anyone who has worked hard, saved money, often been successful in other fields, want to pump their hard-earned cash down a hole that statistically, at least, will almost surely prove dry? Why venture into an industry with enormous fixed expenses (...), with a notoriously transient and unst.. | chef cooking food-industry food-writing kitchen restaurant | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 7c38a2e | history, as they say, will always be written by the victors. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 142ab4c | the problem with Google is that it is forever evolving - adjusting its algorithm in ways it keeps secret. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 6440e1a | Anyway, I'm getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 803fc7d | Lighthearted boys and girls were harvesting the grapes in woven baskets, while on a resonant harp a boy among them played a tune of longing, singing low with delicate voice a summer dirge. The others, breaking out in song for the joy of it, kept time together as they skipped along. | Homer | ||
| a34fd97 | He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 450bddf | The alt-right's small gains in popularity will not be enough to win Trump the election. This is not Germany in the 1930s. All that's changed is that one of Alex's fans -- one of those grumpy looking middle-aged men sitting in David Icke's audience -- is now the Republican nominee. But if some disaster unfolds -- if Hillary's health declines further, or she grows ever more off-puttingly secretive -- and Trump gets elected, he could bring Ale.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 359d849 | He said his worst days were when he allowed himself to hope for a second chance. The best were when he knew it was over forever and his destruction was necessary as a deterrent to others. I | Jon Ronson | ||
| e20b7f6 | I spent a few hours with Mercedes. She was, on the surface, quite troll-like--a lover of jubilant online chaos. She told me about her favorite 4chan thread. It was started by "a guy who's genuinely in love with his dog, and his dog went in heat, and so he went around collecting samples and injecting them into his penis and he fucked his dog and got her pregnant and they're his puppies." Mercedes laughed. "That's the thread I told the FBI ab.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| f218e2d | It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a 'feeling', for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a6f69f6 | He hosted a series of lunches - Les Dejeuners de Gustave Le Bon - for politicians and prominent society people. He'd sit at the head of the table with a bell by his side. If one of his guests said something he disagreed with he'd pick up the bell and ring it relentlessly until the person stopped talking. | Jon Ronson |