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“Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from a spell of moist, grubby isolation in the woods. It sits just outside the main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and specializes in providing all those things that the park does not—principally, slurpy food, motels, gift shops, and sidewalks on which to waddle and dawdle—nearly all of it strewn along a single, astoundingly ugly main street.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef

“Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: “To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef