[News] Anthony Bourdain

[Eggman]

RIP

Suicide.

Incredibly sad. Great books and very interesting TV shows.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Bloody hell. Really liked his food writing, A Cook's Tour is a great read.

 

[MattBackHome]

Bloody hell. Really liked his food writing, A Cook's Tour is a great read.

Plus that first (or second?) chapter from Kitchen Confidential - utterly brilliant.

He'll be missed.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Kitchen Confidential is a great read, even more so if you’ve worked in the catering trade.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Wow - always liked his shows. He did always have a hint of 'troubled soul' about him though. RIP.

 

[Steve in Japan]

He produced great TV shows - thinking of No Reservations. Ostensibly about food, but also fine travel shows in their own right.

One of his sayings was, as he tucked into some fine food, "Life does not suck". Maybe it did. RIP.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Incredibly sad to hear this. I absolutely love Kitchen Confidential - certainly one of my top three books ever - and A Cook's Tour was also a mighty fine read. He once produced a hilarious cookbook in which he asserted it was fine to boil lobsters alive because they were basically "big dumb bugs" and that anyone who couldn't roast a chicken should hang up their apron and give up.

Always outspoken, by turns libertarian and just liberal (famously supporting #MeToo and eating back street food with Obama, both mentioned on the BBC suicide story) I loved his books precisely because they were so macho. When it comes to culinary entertainment I want a guy who's possibly high on various substances outdoor grilling meat in the backstreets of some God forsaken hole - not middle class women baking in a tent.

This makes me incredibly sad. Time to re-read Kitchen Confidential. Thanks Tony.

 

[Rugrat]

OMG what a terrible loss. Such a great entertainer, really down to earth and never happier than when being 'one of the lads'. Will miss his stuff

RIP

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Such a shame, a true character on screen and a brilliant chef and writer.

Went to Brasserie Les Halles in John St, New York in 2004 - fantastic food, but sadly closed in 2016. Bought the Les Halles Musique CD - still one of my favourite background albums.

RIP Anthony

 

[sydney]

gutted.....he was a personal fave , watched his shows avidly and am still a bit shocked.....what a waste of talent ...ffs....

 

[Juan Albion]

Terribly upset by this. I adore Parts Unknown. The recent episode from Newfoundland was top quality.

 

[severnside gull]

I had the very real pleasure of meeting him briefly on a couple of occasions in New York and in San Francisco. A really generous, likeable and infinitely interesting man. A sad loss.

 

[Juan Albion]

I had the very real pleasure of meeting him briefly on a couple of occasions in New York and in San Francisco. A really generous, likeable and infinitely interesting man. A sad loss.

And some good musical taste.

 

[mylesfdo]

Absolutely gutted, he was a total legend.

Loved any show he did and his book Kitchen Confidential I must have read at least ten times and never get bored of it having worked in the industry, sometimes Id just sit down and read the 'Day In The Life' chapter!!

Hes fiction books were also pretty good and the Les Halles cookbook is superb for traditional brasserie recipes, love the veal escalope dish(must cook soon!!).

RIP Tony

 

[Eggman]

All episodes of Parts Unknown on Netflix, including one about the great man's travels.

 

[daveinplzen]

He enjoyed a fried cheese sandwich in Prague. Doubted his credentials after that.

 

[Gwylan]

He enjoyed a fried cheese sandwich in Prague. Doubted his credentials after that.

Ah, that takes me back. When I first went to Prague, it was very hard to find anything vegetarian. I pretty much lived off smažený sýr for several days.