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“If a restaurant is known for steak, and doesn’t seem to be doing much business, how long do you think those few orders of clams and mussels and lobster and fish have been sitting in the refrigerator, waiting for someone like you to order it? The key is rotation. If the restaurant is busy, and you see bouillabaisse flying out the kitchen doors every few minutes, then it’s probably a good bet.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski’s statement that flatly defines man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, “Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I think it was Lessing who once said, “There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.” An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly