Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Michael Bourdainis an American chef, author, and television personality. He is a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of numerous professional kitchens, including many years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. Although Bourdain is no longer employed as a chef, he maintains a relationship with Les Halles in New York. He became widely known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. His first food and world-travel television show was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth25 June 1956
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
What can I say, I happen to be an aficionado of the dive bar.
There are a lot less restraints on it than there used to be. It comes with a parental warning in the US before each segment. For mature audiences only.
There is no script at all for what's said on camera,
I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot in with me.
Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.
that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.
Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.