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Anthony Michael Bourdain est un auteur américain, ancien chef de la Brasserie Les Halles à New York. Il adore la bonne chère depuis sa plus tendre enfance et cet amour de la cuisine, il l'a sans doute acquis lors d'un voyage en France avec sa famille, à bord du bateau d'un ostréiculteur, où il a goûté sa première huître. Depuis ce jour, il n'a cessé de voyager autour du monde à la recherche de la « bonne » et aussi de la « mauvaise » chère, ce qu'il se charge de faire découvrir au public à travers ses «aventures culinaires ».

✵ 25. juin 1956 – 8. juin 2018
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Anthony Bourdain: 57 citations0 J'aime

Anthony Bourdain: Citations en anglais

“If there was any justice in this world, I would have been a dead man at least two times over. By this, I mean simply that many times in my life the statistical probabilities of a fatal outcome have been overwhelming – thanks to my sins of excess and poor judgment and my inability to say no to anything that sounded as if it might have been fun. … [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.”

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Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential (2000)

“PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.”

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Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw (2010)

“Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It’s about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It’s about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It’s about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“Margarine? That’s not food. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? I can. If you’re planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won’t be able to help you.”

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Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential (2000)

“Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“Anyone who refuses to let you eat your burger at a temperature less than medium is on the side of the terrorists.”

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Anthony Bourdain

The Layover - New York City

“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre A Cook's Tour

A Cook's Tour (2001)

“America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis—or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“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. The more exotic the food, the more adventurous the serious eater, the higher the likelihood of later discomfort. I’m not going to deny myself the pleasures of morcilla sausage, or sashimi, or even ropa vieja at the local Cuban joint just because sometimes I feel bad a few hours after I’ve eaten them.”

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Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential (2000)

“I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.”

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Interview with Dave Weich http://www.powells.com/authors/bourdain.html

“No kid really wants a cool parent. "Cool" parents, when I was a kid, meant parents who let you smoke weed in the house – or allowed boyfriends to sleep over with their daughters. That would make Sarah Palin “cool.” But, as I remember, we thought those parents were kind of creepy. They were useful, sure, but what was wrong with them that they found us so entertaining? Didn’t they have their own friends?”

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Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw (2010)

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre A Cook's Tour

A Cook's Tour (2001)

“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre A Cook's Tour

A Cook's Tour (2001)

“Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.”

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Anthony Bourdain

As reported in a New York Times appraisal of his life http://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/dining/anthony-bourdain-restaurants.html

“The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.”

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On novelist and poet Jim Harrison
Medium Raw (2010)

“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”

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Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw (2010)

“I do a lot of speaking engagements and sometimes I feel like I’m being paid to curse in front of people who haven’t heard it in a while.”

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from a 2008 interview http://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/dining/anthony-bourdain-restaurants.html

“Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone … Bad food is fake food … food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that’s too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy – it’s bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation…. as much as it is also about freshness.”

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Interview with Chris Tan http://www.foodfella.com/Writing%20Pages/Bourdain.html

“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”

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Alden Mudge, "On tour with a guerrilla gourmet" http://www.bookpage.com/0112bp/anthony_bourdain.html, interview, BookPage.com, accessed June 17, 2007.

“Good food does lead to sex. As it should.”

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Anthony Bourdain livre The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

“There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.”

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Medium Raw (2010)

“You know what’s great about New York? The threshold for citizenship as a New Yorker is actually pretty short. If you come to New York and you still like it two years after you arrived here, and you still think it’s great and you’re having a good time and you haven’t been just totally ground down and go limping back to wherever the fuck you came from, you know what? You’re in!”

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Anthony Bourdain

The Layover - New York City

“As you move through this life…you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.”

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