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Far East Hammer 2:57 Fri Jun 8
Anthony Bourdain Brown Bread
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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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Pee Wee
2:59 Fri Jun 8
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Meh
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Spandex Sidney
3:09 Fri Jun 8
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Is that artisan brown bread?
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Mart O
3:11 Fri Jun 8
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'died of suicide' ?
Is it catching ?
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Swiss.
3:13 Fri Jun 8
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Pain de marron?
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Mart O
3:15 Fri Jun 8
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'he said the most disgusting thing he’d ever consumed was unwashed warthog anus.'
FOMB.
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HairyHammer
3:17 Fri Jun 8
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This has shocked me a bit, He was one of my favourite food journo's and very charismatic on television I will miss his brilliant programmes and voice.
I always thought he would die from Alcohol poisoning he, drank like a horse.
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The Stoat
3:18 Fri Jun 8
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Never heard of him
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chim chim cha boo
3:30 Fri Jun 8
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Never heard of him either but just read some of his Twitter feeds and he sounded like a pretty decent bloke to have a beer with and it's always bad when one of those checks out.
Meanwhile Robbie fucking Williams calmly walks down the fire escape as the posh hotel he's staying in burns, trademark smirk intact.
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OccupyGreenStreet
3:30 Fri Jun 8
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Shocked by this. Don’t really know his shows but know of him from sports martial arts - trained jiu jitsu every day and competed high level. Often helps with depression and mental health issues as it helps to put your mind in a good place. RIP.
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HairyHammer
3:33 Fri Jun 8
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The Stoat
He is a best selling author a brilliant chef of French cuisine and probably the most famous American that is not an actor, and a writer of fiction too.
He is most famous for his TV work just youtube his name.
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The Stoat
3:35 Fri Jun 8
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HairyHammer 3:33 Fri Jun 8
I'll pass thanks
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Takashi Miike
3:36 Fri Jun 8
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quite a lot of his stuff on netflix, an interesting bloke
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Mart O
3:39 Fri Jun 8
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'probably the most famous American that is not an actor'
In a world drowning in internet-enabled, fatuous nonsense, it really is remarkable to excel so consistently in this fashion. Please do carry on enriching our lives.
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sanfrancis-co-uk
3:51 Fri Jun 8
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He was a great guy who loved a drink,Punk and drugs(in his past) and I was fortunate enough to have a few drinks with him when he done a show here in SF.
The American Keith Floyd.
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geoffpikey
3:55 Fri Jun 8
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probably the most famous American that is not an actor'
That's so incredible, it deserves a prize!!
PS: who?
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sanfrancis-co-uk
4:02 Fri Jun 8
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Parts Unknown,and No Reservations were his shows.
Think of Michael Palin shows from around the world with a cooking theme and plenty of booze.
Worth watching!
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Your mum
4:02 Fri Jun 8
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Huge fan of Bourdain, sarcastic as fuck, funny, creative, food lover & decent taste in music, world needs more people Like Anthony, not less :(
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gph
4:02 Fri Jun 8
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I'd probably do the same thing if my real name was mentioned on WHO...
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Your mum
4:04 Fri Jun 8
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"I should’ve died in my 20s. I became successful in my 40s. I became a dad in my 50s. I feel like I’ve stolen a car — a really nice car — and I keep looking in the rearview mirror for flashing lights."
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