Anthony Bourdain

I do my very best to avoid shark fin. ”

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. ”

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. ”

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing. ”

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef. ”

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. ”

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. ”

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. ”

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. ”

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. ”