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Far East Hammer 2:57 Fri Jun 8
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Suicide apparently
RIP
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/anthony-bourdain-chef-found-dead-61
Anthony Bourdain, TV chef and travel host, found dead aged 61
CNN, which aired Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown, confirmed his death and said the cause was suicide
The TV chef Anthony Bourdain has died of suicide, CNN has said. He was 61.
The cable news network, which hosted Bourdain’s globetrotting culinary travel guide Parts Unknown, confirmed Bourdain’s death on Friday 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 on Friday morning.
“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.”
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Bourdain was understood to have been in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series. His friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room.
Bourdain was one of cooking’s leading storytellers and authored several books, including Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly and Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook.
In his series, he could be found drinking beer with Barack Obama in Hanoi or hanging out with Iggy Pop in Miami.
“I’m proud of the fact that I’ve had as dining companions over the years everybody from Hezbollah supporters, communist functionaries, anti-Putin activists, cowboys, stoners, Christian militia leaders, feminists, Palestinians and Israeli settlers, to Ted Nugent,” he once explained.
“You like food and are reasonably nice at the table? You show me hospitality when I travel? I will sit down with you and break bread.”
Bourdain cultivated an image as a “culinary bad boy”, and delighted in eating from the extreme end of food spectrum, whether sheep’s testicles in Morocco or raw seal eyeball in the Arctic. Besides a chicken McNugget, he said the most disgusting thing he’d ever consumed was unwashed warthog anus.
Bourdain was . He said he had also smoked cigarettes and drunk alcohol to excess.
“We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to ‘conceptualize’. Hardly a decision was made without drugs,” he wrote in Kitchen Confidential.
In 1999 he wrote a New Yorker article, ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This,’ that became Kitchen Confidential. Those stories were largely based on his years working at Les Halles, a French bistro on Manhattan’s Park Avenue South. He delighted in the shocking or unhygienic aspects of the chef’s trade.
In 2013, while accepting a Peabody award, Bourdain described how he approached his work.
“We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions,” he said, “we tend to get some really astonishing answers.”
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HairyHammer
4:27 Sat Jun 9
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I may have over egged Mr Bourdain when I claimed he was 'Probably the most famous American that is not an actor' obviously that is not the case, but anyone who can sit down with an American President (Obama) and do a food programme has got some clout .
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VirginiaHam
3:55 Sat Jun 9
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Very upsetting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/06/08/anthony-bourdain-was-the-best-friend-i-never-had/?utm_term=.430f9b6f96f3
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arsene york-hunt
3:32 Sat Jun 9
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I though I was opening a home baking recipe.
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Spandex Sidney
3:14 Sat Jun 9
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'and probably the most famous American that is not an actor'
My friend, let me introduce you to Mr Donald Trump. He's big in these parts.
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Gavros
2:52 Sat Jun 9
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24? Born in 1994?
If you knew back then what you would become....
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Gavros
2:50 Sat Jun 9
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I saw that clip about Brexit on that fucking stupid programme.
This is why technocratic issues are not given to the general public to decide upon.
Anyway RIP Bourdain, proper interesting bloke.
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bruuuno
2:13 Sat Jun 9
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These days there’s millions more celebs than there was back then, it must be a full time job keeping track of them
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Sven Roeder
1:55 Sat Jun 9
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Youd think with the internet people would know MORE but seems not.
When I was a kid I still knew figures from the past but the modern way seems to be think that the world started when you were born
Anyway , RIP Anthony Bourdain
And if you don't know him check out his work
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bruuuno
1:41 Sat Jun 9
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Yes Sven my mrs is 24 and it’s frustrating sometimes when she’s completely unaware of people who were household names in the 90s.
Makes me feel a right old cunt
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Sven Roeder
10:37 Sat Jun 9
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I find it quite interesting as to who people have heard of. Depends on your interests I guess.
Always have to think twice when talking to ‘younger people’ and realise they might not know someone from longer from 10 years ago or someone who isn’t from reality tv.
Had to laugh though when 5Live played a clip from Love Island where a girl said she had never heard of this thing called ‘Brexit’ that they were asked about. Ha !
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BRANDED
10:29 Sat Jun 9
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Never heard of him.
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Golden Oldie
10:19 Sat Jun 9
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Kaiser Zoso
Evidently he ain't no goy...
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Kaiser Zoso
10:14 Sat Jun 9
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I never knew anything about this goy until today
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Golden Oldie
10:11 Sat Jun 9
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I never knew anything about this guy until today, it seems the poor fella must have forgot to take his meds or something...
Anthony Bourdain: "In 70 years there will be no white people anymore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJqXEoUU3U
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di_kezio
8:27 Sat Jun 9
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Whenever I see suicide in hotel room stories, I wonder if that’s a cover up for a Michael Hutchence or David Carradine autoerotic accident.
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Capitol Man
5:45 Sat Jun 9
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Depression is a hell of a thing. I think he’s got a young daughter as well.
I liked his shows. At times they could get too pretentious, but on the whole were based on a great concept.
Spending your life in the hotel rooms of the world seems like maybe the worst thing you can do if you are battling depression.
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nerd
12:56 Sat Jun 9
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His book kitchen confidential is good read. Shame rip
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Sydney_Iron
12:43 Sat Jun 9
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I enjoyed his stuff on TV, very much a modern day Keith Floyd in many ways.
A big wind up merchant particularly when it came to Vegetarians “the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit” Vegans he took a step further causing outrage and calls for him to be banned etc when he described them “The Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn”
RIP Tony, I liked the cut of your jib, far too young to go, sadly looks like another victim of depression and the cursed black dog.
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twoleftfeet
12:27 Sat Jun 9
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Never heard of him.
Nice to see the rape fantasist Rose McGowan posting a video of herself crying over his death though, that woman is a fucking loon!
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Son of Sam
5:35 Fri Jun 8
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Sad news R.I.P. although I always found Strasbourg a thoroughly depressing place.
But at least his passing throws up some more WHO Gold
"and probably the most famous American that is not an actor, and a writer of fiction too."
Steady on Hairy.
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simon.s
5:05 Fri Jun 8
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He inspired me to visit some of the places I’ve been. Certainly would have been someone you’d want to share a few beers with. Looked the perfect life from the outside looking in.
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