“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part ...” — Anthony Bourdain Quote

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.