Anthony Bourdain

[nsacpi]

Don't know where to put this. But he recognized and celebrated something important. That people around the world have been borrowing from each other and mixing with each other for a long time. Whether it be food, or language, or religion, or music, or technology, or DNA.

I see a headline saying Anthony had a globalist mission. I don't think that's quite right. He celebrated local traditions. But he also celebrated how those traditions could be borrowed and transferred from one culture to the next.

I will miss Anthony and his knowledge. How else am I going to find the go to hole-in-wall place next time I go to Quebec.

 

[Runnin]

 

[thethe]

Sad when someone feels the need to commit suicide. From the outside looking in you would think Bourdain had a great life. Life is just real hard.

 

[Runnin]

Sad when someone feels the need to commit suicide. From the outside looking in you would think Bourdain had a great life. Life is just real hard.

And often what people do to themselves is the worst of all.

 

[nsacpi]

from an article in the WSJ a few months ago:

THE WINDOWS IN Anthony Bourdain’s apartment, where he lives alone on the 64th floor of a Midtown skyscraper, stretch from floor to ceiling, looking south over Manhattan and west across the Hudson River. Inevitably, the view conjures thoughts of setting off into the distance—fitting for Bourdain, 61, who travels more than 250 days a year to shoot his CNN show Parts Unknown. “Do you know the German word Sehnsucht?” he asks. “It means feeling homesickness for a place you’ve never been.” Bourdain, whom everybody calls Tony, is rapping his fingers against the velvet armchair in which he sits. He fidgets constantly. “What about saudade?” he says. “That’s a great one. It’s Portuguese: a longing, for a place you may get to but will probably never go.” It’s 11:30 a.m. He offers me a beer and starts smoking. “Am I searching, am I seeking, am I always looking for something more? Yes!” he says. “I do this for no other reason.”

Sehnsucht and saudade...what great words

 

[Julio3000]

Oh man.

 

[goldfly]

I seriously still can’t believe the news. I didn’t think I would start my day with tears for a person I unfortunately never met to tell them how much they helped change and mold my life. I remember stumbling upon Anthony Bourdain’s show “No Reservations” with a friend one night. We watched as many of those as we could after hearing the catchy no reservations lead in. I was already liking traveling but his show and his book that I then read pushed me to travel more and try new things. Go experience a culture vastly different than yours. Go find out that those people aren’t so different than you. Get outside your comfort zone. Try new foods from all corners of this globe. Don’t be scared of trying something different. His suggestions have directly had influences on some of my travels and where I have gone in this world and where I have eaten. I always dreamed of randomly bumping into him at some remote spot in the world and sharing a beer. I hope he is resting easy now and found whatever he was searching for cause the world lost a great one today in my eyes.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Other international suicide helplines can be found at befrienders.org.

RIP Anthony Bourdain.

 

[Runnin]

Here's the article he wrote on the high end restaurant kitchen scene (for lack of another term) that started his road to fame.


Don't Eat Before You Read This by Anthony Bourdain, The New Yorker