Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

Born June 25, 1956 · Died June 8, 2018

From New York City, New York, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Anthony Michael Bourdain is an American chef, author, and television personality.

Quotes

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
Kitchen Confidential
“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure.”
Kitchen Confidential
“Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I’d pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.”
“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we’ve all had to become disappears, when we’re confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”
Kitchen Confidential

Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Books by Anthony Bourdain in order

Books by Anthony Bourdain in the order they were published, from Bone in the Throat (1995) to Anthony Bourdain Reader (2025).

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