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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
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I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Hollandaise is a veritable petri-dish of biohazards.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
I've been writing this stuff for much the same reasons behind my frenetic traveling: Because I can. Because there's so little time. Because there's been so much to see and remember. Because I always think for sure the next book or the next show will tank, and I better make some fucking money while I can.
Anthony Bourdain • The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Bourdain wasn’t out to sell an experience or show how good something could be — every episode was about telling the story of things exactly as they are.
Christine Byrne • The Inspiration of Anthony Bourdain
Gold died from pancreatic cancer in 2018 at the age of fifty-seven. The day after, I drove around Los Angeles to eat three of his favorite Mexican dishes: smoked marlin tacos in Inglewood, a shrimp taco in Boyle Heights, the clayuda at an Oaxacan restaurant in Koreatown.