Anthony Bourdain Quotes

For me, the good food starts with good product.

If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.

I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

I think when dishes have a certain amount of acidity, really they are very alive. And I love things that are alive.

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.

It's not that hard to make good food.

The thing is everything is good at the Cheesecake Factory. Everything's good. It's science-based. It's a formula; there's math. It's all good!

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.