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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

— Anthony Bourdain

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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.

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Anyone who refuses to let you eat your burger at a temperature less than medium is on the side of the terrorists.

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

Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

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