Status Updates From Appetites: A Cookbook

I am so sad.

I love Bourdain… legit until the day I die. Speaking of, I do not think he committed suicide. At all!!! He was working on things for child trafficking… but anyway, this is a very casual read. I just wanted something easy in between the other stuff I am reading. Learning more about him as a family man; I did not know he became a father at 51!!!

“Truffles do not make it better. If you add truffle oil, which is made from a petroleum-based chemical additive and the crushed dreams of nineties culinary mediocrity, you should be punched in the kidneys.”

“the single most important lesson I learned over the course of many years, and many, many parties, is this humbling but inescapable fact: that no matter what you serve, no matter how beautifully presented, strikingly garnished, exotic in flavor, or expensive, what everybody wants, what they will be all over like a swarm, every time, is commercially made freezer-case-sourced pigs in fucking blankets.”

“God does not want you to put chicken in your Caesar.”

Hold cooked bacon on the interior pages of the newspaper of record, which have been proven to be among the most hygienic, bacteria-free surfaces you can find anywhere. Really. If you ever need to deliver a baby unexpectedly, just reach for a nearby New York Times Styles section. You can be pretty sure nobody has touched that.

gonna start adding the cookbooks I read cover to cover on here bc I’m going through them like CRAZY