Anthony Bourdain Quotes

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

I'm not a chef: I'm a cook.

God, Americans know how to cook.

I grew up cooking. I was always in my grandma's cooking, and I never thought of it as a career.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life - I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we're the ones that know flavor.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.