Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits.

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

It's a special feeling when you are blasting through the park along the Monza straights, and there are so many really enthusiastic fans there. I have to admit, though, it's not only the racing I'm looking forward to, as Italian cuisine is superb.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.

My favourite meal is probably chicken with penne pasta and pesto.

If you're going to do a spaghetti legs routine where else but in Rome to do it. The home of spaghetti!

My signature dish - something I've been making since I was 10 - is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it's absolutely amazing.

Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.

I'm a fan of a big roast or a bolognese, but I also love baking.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

Man, who don't like spaghetti?

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

I'm sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it's really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don't really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colore salad - it's my favorite.

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.