“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Vegetarians
are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an
affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these
waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal
protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter
I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Oh,
I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them,
for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a
few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.”
―
Anthony Bourdain
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