Friday, February 13, 2009

Bourdain is a badass

I want to acknowledge how great this paragraph is. A friend recently lent me Anthony Bourdain's new book The Nasty Bits. Bourdain is a badass.
What would our world be like if our government, the SEC, our biggest banks, or any large corporation for that matter was run as efficiently as Bourdain describes his kitchen?

"But if you're lucky enough to have a well-oiled machine working for you- a bunch of hardcore, ass-kicking, name-taking debrouillards on the payroll- the chances of a catastrophe are slim in the extreme. Old-school cholos, assasinos, vato locos, veterans of many kitchens like my cooks, they know what to do when there's no space left on the stove for another saute pan. They know how to bump closed a broiler or shut a refrigerator door when their hands are full. They know when to step into another cook's station- and, more importantly, how to do it- without that station becoming a rugby match of crushed toes and sharp elbows. They know how to sling dirty pots twenty-five feet across the kitchen so that they drop neatly into the pot sink without disfiguring the dishwasher."

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