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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
- American Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.
- Chef
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Journalists
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020