“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”

— Anthony Bourdain, book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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Chef and food writer 1956–2018

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