Anthony Bourdain Cooking Quotations

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.