The Anthony Bourdain thread

mid-Lingus "Oh, that's delicious. This is the best thing I've eaten since those street tacos in Mexico City."

._.

LOL @ "mid-lingus."

mid-lingus ah um

first time I read it I was like 'mingus what now OH nvm'

Gretchen:fetch::me:lingus

mid-aer lingus

fakey 360 mid-aer lingus

I saw PLG pull a sick fakey 360 mid-aer lingus on the Dew Tour.

loool

Last couple episodes of the CNN show are pretty good. Congo episode gets heavy with Conrad schtick, but I think I learned more about the country from it than any other source. It's a middle-age cool version of National Geographic.

The Mississippi Delta ep was pretty good, even if more than half of it didn't take place in the Delta.

The recent Nerdist podcast was a pretty solid interview, esp the last 30 min. He gets past his normal schtick and actually has a conversation.

The Nerdist podcast with him is great. Questions are boneheaded, but Bourdain is great when he gets wound up and passionate. Worth a listen.

despite the title this is not as much about working for Bourdain as it is about making a go of it in the big city. livin' the dream

http://thebillfold.com/2014/06/from-recipe-tester-to-anthony-bourdains-assistant/?src=longreads

Bourdain interviewed as season 4 starts up

http://www.fastcompany.com/3036090/innovation-agents/anthony-bourdain-has-become-the-future-of-cable-news-and-he-couldnt-care-l#1

Watching first season of his latest series on netflix, it's really good!!

This show is now 70% martial arts zzzzzzz

???????

they show my store twice in anthony's bleak heroin in greenfield episode of anthony bourdain: parts unknown.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/575420_10154452983342137_3199001036946694970_n.jpg?oh=7ff5e35a1197d50d6de9f352906e1636&oe=570D085E

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12510473_10154452953107137_4708955855004843874_n.jpg?oh=83e5e0bb0ae53d9cd8db0f73ea245cca&oe=5748A4D6

season 4 episode 8. i watched it on netflix today.

it's the one next to All About You.

i think its ep 7, scott - ep 8 is jamaica

watched this after you mentioned it on fb. great episode, really loved his reminiscences of his days in the beach town - though when you see him hang out with the fishermen (like other similar moments in the series) you see that his tough exterior is mostly a bluff, and he knows he's really a media piker among dudes who, you know, are proper ornery types.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-dines-anthony-bourdain-vietnam

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/2016/partsunknown.jpg

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/cyberpunk-anthony-bourdain/

Goddamn that Houston episode was beautiful. Gave me a little hope for America, but also brought me to tears multiple times.

http://www.eater.com/2016/12/21/14038332/anthony-bourdain-election-trump-interview

This is the thing that shocks me. All of these guys [working with Trump], they’re like the cast of — they were the bad guys in Animal House, all grown up! Every frat movie, every meathead movie, Porky’s, Meatballs, the jocks versus the nerds, the jocks versus the hippies, any dystopian thriller, every film America’s ever done. These are clearly the bad guys!

This isn't massively insightful I guess but I definitely feel this way too.

RIP

aw fuck no :(

Oh god, that's awful

Holy shit.

Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, adventurer and television host, has died at the age of 61.

Bourdain, whose CNN series Parts Unknown series launched its 11th season on CNN last month, was reportedly found dead in his hotel room in France, where he was filming an upcoming episode of the travelogue. CNN confirmed Bourdain’s death and said the cause of death was suicide.

“It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.”

Fuck! Been watching this guy from the very start. Really bummed about this

yeah, he always seemed like a genuinely engaging, curious-minded guy who was doing a solid job overcoming whatever issues had plagued him in life

he's got a young daughter too, right? really, really sad

Fucking hell. RIP.

Fucking hell

His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.

Oh god damn.

Wow. What a shock. Very sad.

rip, so heartbreaking

i watched his show from back in the 22 minute episodes for food network when he was particularly sinewy, read his books while working in kitchens in my 20s, shared his fascination with asia, once shared a bar counter with him in vancouver. it seems corny to be a fan of some murder mystery novel-writing former chef or whatever, i guess? i don't even know, but: felt a connection to him, somehow, and i thought he was a rare good sensitive man who i'd like to think made people want to understand the people that live outside of their own neighborhood or country. saw it come up on cnn and gasped and then, "please don't say he killed himself"... shit sux

oh no

it seems corny to be a fan of some murder mystery novel-writing former chef or whatever, i guess? i don't even know, but: felt a connection to him, somehow, and i thought he was a rare good sensitive man who i'd like to think made people want to understand the people that live outside of their own neighborhood or country

yeah, this hits the nail on the head for me: like he was obviously a guy who had had problems in the past but found a way to live a life that seemed to suit him, that brought him enjoyment, and that he could share with people through the tv shows he made and the books he wrote

it fucking sucks to be reminded that even people who seem to have found some kind of peace and contentment can still feel hollow enough inside to take their own lives

(although clearly neither the reminder nor the method of death are his fault)

Unlike any other celebrity passing I almost feel like I lost a friend . I don’t know , it was just my wife and I could always count on him and his show doing what they always did and it was like the show we would watch after those long day when we ate dinner on the couch. It was comforting in some way. idk I’m really bummed by this.

Sometimes he felt a little too aging-punk-rock-try-hard to me, but the episode that he did with Jim Harrison was all-time.

i still think about the beirut episode of NO RESERVATIONS a lot.

https://vimeo.com/203033243

that they pulled this off was pretty cool

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bourdain-parts-unknown-obama-hanoi/index.html

People are also sharing this:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this

yeah, the beirut episode is all-time

whenever there's sabre-rattling in iran's direction i always think of the awesome people bourdain hung out with when he visited there, and how it should be required viewing for anyone who thinks murdering them might somehow benefit the world

me too. needless to say it's been on my mind a lot lately.