The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus. - Anthony Bourdain

What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavours and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking - the real business of preparing the food you eat - is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way.

The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.

When I die, I want to come back as a Mexican, a Poblano, a fucking grown-up.