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
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 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.
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.
I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.
I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot in with me.
that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.
Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.
I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.
In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.