Anthony Bourdain, Leadership Lessons From the Kitchen, 2006

Much respect this guy knows

Rachel Ray is the biggest hack.

The only kitchens I worked in that had bad chemistry, Chefs who were not cooks, resentment and backbiting, were big hotel kitchens.

I’m opening a pizzeria and this my friends

Is gospel

The highest number of obese people in the world distinction wasn't earned by people who consume a variety of high quality food. Nearly 20 years later, we still fly that flag (though with smaller margins, many countries catching up) on a pillar of unavailability, inaccessibilty, and utter lack of knowledge of the variety of high quality food that would spare us this fate. Real education and sound guidance on nutrition and health has a very long way to go.

Anthony is absolutely right on describing what it's like being a cook or chef in a restaurant. Coming up from a dishwasher to the lead sous chef in a fine dining restaurant it's exactly what he said. It's hard asf, and at the end of every service you did a full roller coaster of emotions and physical work that you do feel great that you made it thru another night of busy service and customers are full and happy. Did it for 15 years and loved it but had other serious choices to make. Still love cooking but at home now. God bless Tony and may he inspire in heaven as he has done here on earth.

We all miss Tony so much ♥️

"you're not thirsty, you're fucked up" LMAO

FACTS, Tony!! RIP…

He had such great insight and was very gifted with expressing it in words and expressions

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Brutal with the honestly if it it makes you feel a little angry than he’s done his job and it’s relative to you my man chef tony

What a master!

This information is irrelevant now everybody cares about everything.

Bourdain explains the kitchen system and leadership well. I miss this man. 👨‍🍳🔪🍳

You could buy soy sauce in grocery stores 50 years ago.

I have al love/hate relationship with the restaurant business but its always been there for me. If and when im in it?...im in it all the way.

Theory of alternate principle delivered on his own style … I love the way he said about employee employer relationship is “don’t care who you are , it’s what do your u Do” Missing a pure genius

Genius

OMG!! Did he really say that? A reminder to really listen to people. His demise foretold. It makes me sad. I'm so sorry Anthony.

The time before “diversity and feelings” infested everything. Crazy, the good times weren’t that long ago.

Love Tony washer pot dig grave can't read or write tok me 3 hours to do this but bin all over the world no money but you can do it

Nice talk. Quite Michael Jordan-like.

Brutal truth works.

Tony was just built different! Love his unfiltered honesty!

Anthony was a humanist. To all of us cooks he was the ultimate underdog who went to the top and we all lived vicariously through him.

It makes me so sad to watch him now and know what lay ahead. I think he suffered from the same internal demons as Kurt Cobain. There was an insecurity in his perfectionism that kept driving him to keep outdoing himself, and at some point he just realized it wasn't worth it anymore. He should have just moved to Vietnam, which he loved, and chilled for a few years and then understood just being himself was enough. Asia broke him at a vulnerable point in his life and she didn't realize what she was doing to him, at exactly the wrong time.

AB tried to hide his elitist liberal views but it's out for plain view here. He loves his low cost, mindless, 3rd world workers who are "use to" life not being fair. What a message! Remember how he threw in how you as a worker, just have to take the owner in his fancy car and showing off his riches?
He's of the disgusting Clinton mold. Those same mindless 3rd world workers that these elitists need pouring over the border, are the ones who can fight their wars, keep these elites rich, and vote to keep them in power so it never changes. Meanwhile a huge slice of the US citizen population is homeless and living in severe poverty because of it. What a fkn a$$hole!!

Who are all the aholes who won't shut up in the back???!!

I miss him so very much. The World lost a huge person. 😢❤

I am fully against illegal people working in my kitchen. I have fired people after finding out they were hired illegally

Rockstar

He didn’t know about surveillance cameras. Owners treat their staff like robots.

A great listen. Take notes.

Every time he casually mentions hanging in the shower, my neck gets chills. Anthony mentioned hanging multiple times before his death. It's eerie.

A lecture to all of us cooks or chefs.
Truly a master, I admire you wherever you are Anthony, you've been impactful in many lifes.

conclusion : if you have a spine the chef will not like you

As a chef Anthony makes you feel like a rockstar. He says “you feel like the man on the subway. You feel like you deserve that seat” I tell every chef I meet that we are rockstars. We aren’t doctors or lawyers but we do a lot for people. We can heal people and help them just by serving them a plate…. That’s punk rock

2024 is wild. Kitchens have changed a little. But so accurate still. ❤ R.I.P.

"There are two types of people in the world... People who like the relentless futility, heat, pressure, the madness, insanity of restaurant kitchens... and then there's everybody else. Normal people, who don't find that attractive" Miss this guy's wisdom & humor. ❤❤❤

You really can't understate how many chefs today were inspired by this man to join the profession.

We're incredibly lucky to have this man's teachings recorded in audio and video format.

You would be shocked how many of these lessons apply working in surgery. Just imagine the surgeon is the chef and the scrub tech is the cook

Unquestionably the greatest of all time. The legend of our generation! He does mention that thought of hanging at 4th min into this video

"I can teach cooking, I cannot teach character"

I'm actually addicted to Kitchen Confidential

People who want to land managerial positions should watch this, and read kitchen confidential. Years later this is still relevant

TOUGH CROWD HE HAD SOME GOOD JOKES