Anthony Bourdain

It’s an unfortunate choice of words. And a telling one, I think. You know, those poor people—always with their Nikes and their cell phones

A healthy lunch is all fine and good—but no use at all to Little Timmy if he gets shot to death on the way to school

You may agree with everything they say, but you wish they’d just shut the fuck up

. I don’t know about you, but burning up a couple of cords of firewood for a single fucking egg doesn’t exactly send a message of sustainability to me

David Crosby singing “Almost Cut My Hair” (a song about which I am still, in some secret place, uncontrollably sentimental)

what’s truly wonderful about Alice is that she is, first and foremost, a sensualist

What makes Alice Waters such a compelling character is her infectious enthusiasm for pleasure

Alice survived and prospered where many of her original hippie contemporaries did not

Jamie Oliver is a hero for doing the harder thing—when he surely doesn’t have to do anything at all. Most chefs I know, were they where Jamie is on the Success-O-Meter? They’d be holed up at a Four Seasons somewhere, shades drawn, watching four tranny hookers snort cocaine off each other

stone-dead in a long, dreary dirge. Nothing could live in this temple of hubris