Anthony Bourdain Quotes

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

There is nothing more satisfying to me than seeing people who eat my food have smiles on their faces. It makes the experience special.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

I think cooking should be an experience, not a chore.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.

I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.

I'm such a foodie.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.