Anthony BourdainThinkers

The Body is not a temple, it's an amusement park, so one ought to enjoy the ride.

Cooking is a virtue, and the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

Garlic is divine, for few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly, but the misuse of garlic is a crime.

Regret is something one's got to just live with. One can’t drink it away. One can’t run away from it. One can’t trick oneself out of it.