"I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams.  I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is."

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When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

— Anthony Bourdain