Anthony Bourdain quotes from Top Chef

Anthony Bourdain

[On Michael] It's like Betty Crocker and Charles Manson had a love child, and he's cooking for me.

Anthony Bourdain

[on Michael's dishes] That was so perverse, so inappropriate, I'm almost beginning to respect him.

Anthony Bourdain

What kind of crack house are you running here?

Anthony Bourdain

[about Marcel] Gastro Boy has balls!

Anthony Bourdain

Looking forward to smashing the hopes and dreams and ambitions...

Anthony Bourdain

[about CJ's dish] They were cleaning Bob Marley's house and found this in the closet.

In your book, though, there's a little, you know, part that says about Ecuadorian line cooks, I believe? Ecuadorian?

Anthony Bourdain

Oh, that's unfair, dude!

Wait, wait a minute! And what does it say? Its says, "You can yell at this person and this person and they'll give it to you when it's wrong". But these particular people, they'll give it to you when it's right!

Anthony Bourdain

You son of a bitch!

Oh, you're in trouble!

Tom

What bugs me is, how do you come here and compete and not know what a piccata is? And he didn't know that and I still don't think he knows.

Anthony Bourdain

I really find it worrying that I had absolutely no idea what was coming out of his mouth.

Let's just say it wasn't just his gnocchi that were dense.

Tom

[trying not to laugh] That's just mean!

[on his souffle] It rose, but then I dumped a bunch of tortillas and stuff on top of it that made it drop.

Anthony Bourdain

I gotta say, you were clearly way out of your comfort zone and scrambling around for some way out of a bad situation right out of the gate. But the last thing a souffle needs is more weight on top. Tough, tough, tough..

[shrugging] I made glorified nachos. I'm not proud of it.