15 Killer Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

It's been a month.

Not that there is pun intended in any of this, but truly Anthony Bourdain, in more ways than one is an artist. The travel extraordinaire that I was told by my own father inspired him to get out of his own comfort zone in Pasay City--to somewhere, perhaps--unknown.

• Your learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together
• I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
• Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
• I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture. 
• I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
• If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
• Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through. 
•  The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
• People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice...they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
• I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be goof for the world surely.
• I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and its embarrassing.
• I would like to see more people aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
• I don't have to agree with you to like your or respect you.
• If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel-as far as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them--where you go.
• Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

He was an artist whether in the kitchen indoors or outdoors. Travel starts with your tongue, and he did this both ways by digesting the culture hard through human connection and eating foods prepared by local families like he was a member of theirs. 

Anthony Bourdain leaves a legacy of cultures untouched and then discovered through his eyes. As the whole world watched his travels, we traveled with him as we understood ourselves and others. Traveling is a great teacher not as a tourist, but as a traveler. 

Be curious with less judgement, open your eyes--instead of your mouth.