Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Quotes.

11. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe"
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

12. "Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

13. "For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

14. "So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong. Maybe they didn't make it through high school, maybe they're running away from something-be it an ex-wife, a rotten family history, trouble with the law, a squalid Third World backwater with no opportunity for advancement. Or maybe, like me, they just like it here."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

15. "Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

16. "I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

17. "An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

18. "[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

19. "I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

20. "Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod."
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly