Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Michael Bourdainis an American chef, author, and television personality. He is a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of numerous professional kitchens, including many years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. Although Bourdain is no longer employed as a chef, he maintains a relationship with Les Halles in New York. He became widely known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. His first food and world-travel television show was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth25 June 1956
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them.
I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.
Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
He's an amazingly knowledgeable guy. I don't think we're going to be sharing fashion tips anytime soon, but as a television professional and a guy who knows a lot about food, I have a lot of admiration for the guy.
The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!
Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.
Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?
I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.
My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.
On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.
Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.
I'll make fun of the French, thank you very much.