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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 9 June 2018
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain found dead in France at 61

By ANGELA CHARLTON getting up at 5 a.m. to steal
PARIS (AP) — Anthony a couple of hours at the
Bourdain, the celebrity computer before appear-
chef and citizen of the ing at the saute station for
world who inspired millions lunch.
to share his delight in food He said he never intended
and the bonds it created, to write an expose or to "rip
was found dead in his hotel the lid off the restaurant
room Friday in France while business." He said he liked
working on his CNN series the restaurant business the
on culinary traditions. He way it was.
was 61. "What I set out to do was
CNN confirmed the death, write a book that my fellow
saying that Bourdain was cooks would find entertain-
found unresponsive Friday ing and true," he said. "I
morning by friend and chef wanted it to sound like me
Eric Ripert in the French city talking at say ... ten o'clock
of Haut-Rhin. It called his on a Saturday night, after a
death a suicide. Bourdain's busy dinner rush, me and a
assistant Laurie Woolever few cooks hanging around
would not comment when in the kitchen, knocking
reached by The Associated back a few beers and talk-
Press. ing."
Widely loved and rarely Bourdain said he really
afraid to speak his mind, had no idea that anyone
he mixed a coarseness outside the world of chefs
and whimsical sense of ad- In this Sept. 11, 2016 file photo, Anthony Bourdain winner of the award for outstanding informational would even pay attention
venturousness, true to the series or special for "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”. to his comments.
rock 'n' roll music he loved. Associated Press "The new celebrity chef
Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" culture is a remarkable
seemed like an odd choice Trump, whom Bourdain had herself in her Park Avenue Bourdain was reluctant to and admittedly annoy-
for CNN when it started in sharply criticized, offered apartment in New York. analyze why his series suc- ing phenomenon. While
2013 — part travelogue, his "heartfelt condolences" Spade's husband and ceeded. it's been nothing but good
part history lesson, part to Bourdain's family, which business partner said the "If you think about who for business — and for me
love letter to exotic foods. includes his 11-year-old 55-year-old business mogul the audience is and what personally — many of us in
Each trip was an adven- daughter, Ariane. Jamie had suffered from depres- their expectations might the life can't help snicker-
ture. There had been noth- Oliver wrote on Instagram sion and anxiety for many be, I think that's the road to ing about it," he wrote. "Of
ing quite like it on the staid that Bourdain "really broke years. badness and mediocrity," all the professions, after all,
news network, and it be- the mould ... he leaves In a 2008 interview with the he told the AP. "You go out few people are less suited
came an immediate hit. chefs and fans around the AP, Bourdain had said that there and show the best to be suddenly thrown into
Within hours of his death, world with a massive food- his daughter's birth had story you can as best you the public eye than chefs."
"Kitchen Confidential" was ie hole that simply can't be changed his outlook on life. can. If it's interesting to you, Bourdain's introduction to
in the top 20 on Amazon. replaced." "I feel obliged to at least do hopefully it's interesting to "Kitchen Confidential: Insid-
com. Others noted Bourdain's the best I can and not do others. If you don't make er's Edition" was scrawled in
"We are constantly ask- strong defense of the anything really stupidly self- television like that, it's pan- his own hand in block let-
ing ourselves, first and #MeToo movement. His destructive if I can avoid it," dering." ters — offering the sense
foremost, what is the most girlfriend was actress Asia he said. Bourdain was born in New of making it personal right
(messed) up thing we can Argento, who has accused Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" York City and was raised away.
do next week?" he said in a Harvey Weinstein of rape. seemed like an odd choice in Leonia, New Jersey. He He wrote of the difficulty of
2014 interview with the AP. After Mario Batali was ac- for CNN when it started in had written that his love long hours, hard work and
Bourdain's breakthrough cused of sexual assault, 2013 — part travelogue, of food began as a youth poor pay, and said that
as an author came with Bourdain published an es- part history lesson, part while on a family vacation one of the side benefits of
the 2000 publication of his say in Medium in which he love letter to exotic foods. in France, when he ate his his success was the ability
"Kitchen Confidential: Ad- wrote that "one must pick a Each trip was an adven- first oyster. He was candid to pay the rent. Yet there
ventures in the Culinary side." ture. There had been noth- about his personal strug- was more than a sense
Underbelly." The book cre- "I stand unhesitatingly and ing quite like it on the staid gles, saying that drug use of wistfulness about times
ated a sensation by com- unwaveringly with the news network, and it be- led to his dropping out of gone by.
bining frank details of his women," he wrote. came an immediate hit. Vassar College after two CNN is currently airing the
life and career with behind- Another Weinstein accuser, Besides showcasing food, years. 11th season of "Parts Un-
the-scenes observations on actress Rose McGowan, a "Parts Unknown" trip to Working in restaurants led known," and Bourdain was
the culinary industry. tweeted a video of herself, Japan in the series' first sea- him to the Culinary Insti- in France shooting an epi-
Colleagues, friends and sobbing. "Anthony I am so son included an odd show tute of America, where he sode for the 12th season.
admirers shared their grief mad at you," she said. "You with robots and scantily graduated in 1978, and be- CNN said it has not made
Friday. CNN chief execu- were so loved, the world clad women, a visit with a gan working in kitchens in a decision yet on whether
tive Jeff Zucker sent a com- is not better without you. I death metal band and a New York City. He became it will proceed with the cur-
pany letter calling Bourdain have a message for those meal shared with a woman executive chef at Brasserie rent season
"an exceptional talent. A considering suicide as a so- involved in the city's sado- Les Halles in 1998. Bourdain was twice di-
storyteller. A gifted writer. A lution to a temporary prob- masochistic community. In the preface to the latest vorced and has a daugh-
world traveler. An adven- lem. Please call a hotline." In 2016, he sat down for edition "Kitchen Confiden- ter from his second mar-
turer." Bourdain's death came some bun cha in Hanoi, tial," Bourdain wrote of his riage. Funeral arrange-
At the G-7 summit in Can- three days after fashion Vietnam, with President shock at the success of his ments were not immedi-
ada, President Donald designer Kate Spade killed Barack Obama. book, which he wrote by ately available.q