The Anthony Bourdain thread

where are people supposed to dine in salute when Guy Fieri dies, Noma?

i never watched more than a couple of eps of Parts Unknown, so digging in on Netflix today. A nice continuation of the No Resevations tone without as many gimmicks & a bit more depth. Good stuff

I remember being unusually excited when that Waffle House episode came out. It was my teenage hangout.

The Layover had some of my favorites from his series (like PU, less gimmicky than No Reservations) but it's been a while so they're blurry - San Francisco was good IIRC and he hung out with Iggy in Miami.

The No Reservations where they made him roller derby was good as far as gimmicks go.

Uh i beg to differ

Anthony in peru high on ayahuasca was

lol i think Tony’s long lasting legacy in addition to chef & travel dude should be “rolled ATV’s on camera for a living”

✔️ new zealand sand dunes
✔️ Colombian coastal flats

did you miss this?

no, I both saw that episode and made a joke

waffles clip made me cry, that guy was one of our best humans and FUCK whatever made him feel otherwise

I still stand by my pick for the Techniques episode upthread (the one where Jacques Pepin shows you how to cook an omelette, Thomas Keller shows you how to roast a chicken, etc.). It has never left my laptop since it aired - according to iTunes I've watched it 11 times.

Totally heartbroken...

Ernest Hemingway also only made it to 61. Hunter S Thompson was what, 67? Bourdain was a better force for good in the world than either of them. I haven't outright sobbed this much since Bowie.

(weird synchro-mysticsm: we're leaving for China on Monday so we've been watching old episodes this week in prep. Next Parts Unknown features, um, a friend in Berlin.)

_did you miss this?_


no, I both saw that episode /and/ made a joke

Watching Bourdain was what got me to finally try bone marrow many years ago. I still havent revisited organ meat. Bad experiences as a child via my grandmother’s love for offal has left me with deep scars

I honestly didn't know I would feel this upset about it or how he impacted so many other people. I wish he had known too.

rewatching the Techniques ep, the little signoffs from each chef about how they wished he was there with them <3

i get so drawn into watching him & laughing at his dumb jokes & the way he smartasses to camera with a sly grin like a punk kid wagging school & then I remember that he’s gone & it’s just so fucking sad

a lot of my fandoms go back to teens but he’s like one of my deepest fandoms of this back half of my life.

when he first showed up it was like I was being rewarded for loving rare steak & the new york dolls and reading all those burroughs books in college. he was like a fever dream, lol.

This is so sad Christ

Sudden memory of reading the "Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown" chapter of KC in the bookstore when it came out and howling with laughter. Sure, don't eat fish on Monday but that chapter is amazing amazing writing.

otm

i haven't had a copy of Kitchen Confidential in years so I hit amazon to pick one up and didn't realize Bourdain had written so many other books; there are more actual 'food' books than I knew of (cookbooks) and several detective novels? has anyone read his fiction? i imagine it's actually awful but the reviews are not bad.

it’s okay. i found it a little cringey at first but once you settle in, it’s fine. i only read one of them, i cant remember off the top of my head which one now

his Les Halles cookbook is my favorite of all his books
the writing is like Julia’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking; it’s very comforting, like he’s standing there talking to you while you cook

Appetites is also great. Somewhere in there he talks about cooking through the lens of self-care - whatever pit you find yourself in, knowing how to cook for yourself and others will give you a good shovel.

talk of fieri's death has got me thinking about another future celebrity chef death

will definitely get a drum circle going once the big man takes naked chef jamie away from us

I guess Paul Bocuse was the other big time celebrity chef death this year.

(going to be really upset when Jacques Pépin passes)

julia child had a rose named after her

that's a beautiful homage

His first comic book/graphic novel is pretty cool - dystopian sushi chef grindhouse.

President Obama and Anthony Bourdain enjoy dinner and beer in Hanoi.

Fun fact: This restaurant in Vietnam was so honored by the visit, that they framed the table and stools. pic.twitter.com/hTorcNGg4N

— Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) June 8, 2018

somehow I never really noticed how splayed out these two really tall dudes were, sitting on those little stools

Atlantic has a nice obit (and refrences the Congo episode)

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/06/anthony-bourdains-extreme-empathy/562454/

somehow I never really noticed how splayed out these two really tall dudes were, sitting on those little stools

As a tall American dude living in Vietnam, it can be challenging to eat on those stools

I always liked watching Bourdain's shows but my FB feed illustrated just how much of an impact he had on people here in Vietnam. At least five of my expat friends said their decision to move here was partly based on his love for the country. A lot of my Vietnamese friends also loved him deeply

kinda astonishing how many people loved bourdain. I wasn’t aware of it, but my (not on twitter) friend stopped by les halles today, and look at this makeshift shrine: pic.twitter.com/a1ZxoXu54P

— Alex Press (@alexnpress) June 10, 2018

that made me tear up

They need to take the facade and put it in the Met.

Not to chase conspiracy theories, but I hope the police etc. covered both erotic auto-asphyxiation and Black Cube.

wow you’re firing up the fan fiction machine early

sometimes a guy hanging himself in a hotel is just a guy hanging himself in a hotel

if there's something fishy I'd have thought chantix would be involved.

let's not do this

seriously!!

Sorry but it's an honest issue and one he's talked about before.

do you expect to learn anything by hypothesizing? you'll get an autopsy result etc soon enough.

i feel like you should all stfu unless youre posting sweet and touching rememberances

this is more like a thought exercise & not technically “about” Bourdain but i think it hews pretty close to something that feels true imo

https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/10/randazza-trying-to-make-sense-of-bourdain/

i have been thinking a lot about how shattering it must have been for Eric Ripert to find him :(

do you expect to learn anything by hypothesizing? you'll get an autopsy result etc soon enough.

There's a great Maron WTF podcast with Bourdain from 2011. Regardless of what you think of Maron, it's a great discussion.

<3 Ripert, hope he’s doing ok

I seriously cringed the other day when my mom kind of tapered off after half-postulating about past drug use and what it does to your mind

the truth is there are a million things that can be contributing factors, sometimes specific things you can point at, but suicide isn’t something where finding a factor you can point at and decide the case is closed. like so many things in life, it’s something where attempting to rationalize it is a somewhat greedy act on behalf of those of us still here, because we can’t know another person’s mind

it’s not a space shuttle explosion where you point at a faulty gasket and say “hmm yes, this was the cause”. and that’s the human condition right there, we’re not knowable

I love Ripert. I just don't know. It's a lot right now and all this internalized hypothesizing that is human nature. I would hope people try to think about those they are leaving behind with the brunt of discovery.

Regardless, NYC should make a permanent memorial. He was important and quintessentially part of the oxygen and fever of NY.

xxpost mh yeah that is very true
anyway like i said, that dude’s piece seemed more like a thought exercise than insight, i just was kinda moved by it

Watched some of the "CNN Remembers..." thing and, outside of Fox & Friends, there may not be a dumber, more shallow, person to get a reaction from than Wolf Blitzer. I mean, I already knew this, but it was thrown into sharp relief here.