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  • Anthony Bourdain was filming an episode of his series No Reservations in Beirut in July 2006 when a war cut the shoot short. The Israel-Lebanon conflict broke out after his crew had recorded only a few hours of footage. What the producers assembled instead was closer to a survival diary than a food show. It followed the team's first attempts to keep working and their encounters with Hezbollah supporters. It also showed their days of waiting for news in a hotel full of expatriates. A fixer who never appeared on camera helped them get out. Bourdain nicknamed him Mr. Wolf, after the character Harvey Keitel plays in Pulp Fiction. On the morning of the 20th of July, the United States Marine Corps evacuated the crew along with other American citizens. The episode aired on the 21st of August 2006 and was nominated for an Emmy Award the following year. That is a strange credential for a man who spent decades in restaurant kitchens. How does a working chef with a taste for blunt prose become one of the best-known travel hosts on American television? Why did audiences trust him in places many of them feared? And what was the man like when the cameras stopped?

  • His first oyster, eaten on a family holiday in France, came straight from a fisherman's boat. Bourdain later pointed to that moment as the start of his love of food. He was born in Manhattan on the 25th of June 1956. His father, Pierre, worked in classical music recording and rose to become a Columbia Records executive. His mother, Gladys, was a staff editor at The New York Times. A younger brother, Christopher, arrived a few years later.

    France sat in the family's background. Pierre's own father, Pierre Michel Bourdain, had emigrated from Arcachon to New York after the First World War. The boy grew up mostly in Leonia, New Jersey, and later wrote about a home with no drama in it. In his words: "I did not want for love or attention. My parents loved me. Neither of them drank to excess. Nobody beat me." His father was Catholic and his mother Jewish, yet religion barely entered the house. Bourdain still envied classmates whose parents watched them less closely.

    In 1973 he finished at the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. Vassar College came next, but he left after two years. While he was still enrolled there, he worked in seafood restaurants in Provincetown, Massachusetts, including the Lobster Pot. That work persuaded him to cook for a living. He enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America and graduated in 1978. Then he ran kitchens around New York City, among them the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan's.

    In 1998 he became executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. The brand also had restaurants in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo. He stayed for many years. Even after he stopped being formally employed there, the restaurant called him its "chef at large" in January 2014. Les Halles filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017.

    In December 2017, the Culinary Institute of America awarded its former student an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Culinary Arts.

  • Unsolicited submissions to Between C & D, a literary magazine of the Lower East Side, were Bourdain's first route into print in the mid-1980s. The magazine eventually published his story about a chef trying to buy heroin in that neighborhood. In 1985 he signed up for a writing workshop with Gordon Lish. In 1990, after meeting an editor at Random House, he received a small advance from the publisher.

    The culinary mystery Bone in the Throat appeared in 1995. Bourdain paid for his own book tour, and success did not follow. A second mystery, Gone Bamboo, also sold poorly.

    The turn came in 1999, when The New Yorker published his essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Its direct, point-blank voice launched his career. He expanded it into Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2000.

    More bestsellers followed. A Cook's Tour, published in 2001, recounted his food travels and was written alongside his first television series. The Nasty Bits, from 2006, collected 37 essays and anecdotes, grouped under the five traditional flavors. It closed with a 30-page fiction piece called A Chef's Christmas. In 2007 No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach covered the filming of the show's first three seasons. The 2010 memoir Medium Raw served as a follow-up to Kitchen Confidential.

    He also dug into history. Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical revisited Mary Mallon, an Irish-born cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever between 1907 and 1938. In 2012 he co-wrote the graphic novel Get Jiro! with Joel Rose, with art by Langdon Foss. Warner Bros. Animation was slated to adapt it as an adult animated series for Adult Swim. His articles ran in outlets as different as Esquire, Gourmet, The Independent and the Financial Times. His blog for the third season of Top Chef was nominated for a Webby Award in 2008.

    In September 2011, Ecco Press announced that Bourdain would have his own imprint, Anthony Bourdain Books. It would acquire between three and five titles a year. He described it as a line for people with strong voices who speak with authority on something they do well. The first releases came in 2013. They included L.A. Son by Roy Choi, Tien Nguyen and Natasha Phan, and Prophets of Smoked Meat by Daniel Vaughn. Pain Don't Hurt by Mark Miller and Grand Forks by Marilyn Hagerty rounded out the list.

    In 2015 he joined Roads & Kingdoms, a publication about travel, food and politics, as its sole investor and editor-at-large. He edited the Dispatched By Bourdain series there. The site's digital series Explore Parts Unknown launched in 2017 and won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series.

  • Thirty-five episodes of A Cook's Tour aired on the Food Network, starting in January 2002 and running through 2003. The show existed because Kitchen Confidential had sold so well. In July 2005 he moved to the Travel Channel with a similar series, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. That same year, Fox aired a sitcom called Kitchen Confidential, whose lead character, Jack Bourdain, drew loosely on his life and persona.

    The Layover was announced by the Travel Channel in July 2011 and premiered on the 21st of November 2011. Each episode explored a city in the 24 to 48 hours of an air travel layover. It ran for 20 episodes, through February 2013. Bourdain also executive produced The Getaway, a similar show hosted by celebrities, which lasted two seasons on Esquire Network.

    In May 2012 he announced he was leaving the Travel Channel. By December he had explained why on his blog. New ownership had used his voice and image to make it seem he endorsed a car brand. The channel had also built three "special episodes" entirely from clips of the seven official episodes that season.

    On the 14th of April 2013 he returned on CNN with Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, a program that paid more attention to cultures and politics. It was shot in places as different as Libya, Tokyo, the Punjab region, Jamaica, Turkey, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Far West Texas and Armenia. One episode, filmed in Vietnam and aired in September 2016, put President Barack Obama across a table from him. They talked over a beer and bun cha at a small restaurant in Hanoi.

    Other projects filled the gaps. From 2012 to 2017 he narrated and executive produced episodes of the PBS series The Mind of a Chef, which moved to Facebook Watch in 2017. From 2013 to 2015 he was an executive producer, judge and mentor on ABC's The Taste, and earned an Emmy nomination for each season. He guest judged five times on Top Chef and was a main judge on Top Chef All-Stars. From 2015 to 2017 he hosted Raw Craft, a YouTube series visiting artisans who made skillets, suits, saxophones and knives. William Grant & Sons produced it to promote its Balvenie distillery.

    Recognition followed. No Reservations won Creative Arts Emmys for cinematography in 2009 and 2011, and the Critics' Choice Best Reality Series award in 2012. Parts Unknown won the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series or Special in each year from 2013 to 2016, and again in 2018. Its 2013 season also took a Peabody Award, which Bourdain accepted in 2014. In 2012 he had received an Honorary Clio Award, given to people who encourage others to think differently.

  • On the day Bourdain died, the writer Drew Magary called him a spiritual heir to Hunter S. Thompson in a column for GQ. Smithsonian called him the original rock star of the culinary world. Gothamist preferred "culinary bad boy." His swearing and sexual references were frequent enough that the network attached viewer-discretion advisories to every episode of No Reservations.

    His stomach earned part of that reputation. He ate black blood sausage called mustamakkara in Finland, sheep testicles in Morocco and ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico. He ate a raw seal eyeball during a traditional Inuit seal hunt. In Vietnam he ate an entire cobra, including the beating heart, blood and bile. He named the unwashed warthog rectum he ate in Namibia as the worst meal of his life, alongside fermented shark in Iceland. A Chicken McNugget, he said, was the most disgusting thing he had eaten. He was fond of fried chicken from Popeyes and Jolibee.

    Celebrity chefs were frequent targets. He mocked Paula Deen, Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray, irritated by the commercialism of the business and its lack of authenticity. He also voiced disdain for Alan Richman, Alice Waters and Alain Ducasse. Yet he noticed the irony of becoming a celebrity chef himself, and he began to soften. In the 2007 New Orleans episode of No Reservations, he made peace with Emeril Lagasse, whom he had insulted in Kitchen Confidential. The preface to the 2013 edition spoke of Lagasse more warmly. He praised chefs he admired, among them Ferran Adrià, Juan Mari Arzak, Fergus Henderson, José Andrés, Thomas Keller, Martin Picard, Éric Ripert and Marco Pierre White. He spoke very highly of Julia Child's influence on him.

    He was sarcastic about vegan and vegetarian activists, calling their lifestyle rude to hosts in many countries. Except for religious reasons, he considered vegetarianism a First World luxury. Still, he thought Americans ate too much meat. He admired vegetarians who set their beliefs aside as guests.

    Music ran underneath it all. The Nasty Bits is dedicated to "Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee" of the Ramones. He loved early punk bands such as Dead Boys and The Voidoids. In his kitchen, playing Billy Joel, Elton John or the Grateful Dead was grounds for firing. Joel, a fan of Bourdain's, visited the restaurant anyway. On his shows he dined with rockers including Alice Cooper, David Johansen, Marky Ramone and Iggy Pop.

    He was willing to joke about his own image. He consulted and wrote for the television series Treme. In 2011 he voiced himself on The Simpsons, in an episode titled "The Food Wife," where Marge, Lisa and Bart start a food blog. He voiced a parody chef named Lance Casteau on Archer in 2013. In the 2015 film The Big Short, he explained a collateralized debt obligation with a seafood stew. He also produced and starred in Wasted! The Story of Food Waste.

    The band Queens of the Stone Age appeared on No Reservations several times, and later composed and performed the theme for Parts Unknown.

  • David Klion, writing in The Nation, argued that Bourdain understood journalism should tell the truth and challenge the powerful. His gift, Klion said, was to make that work look fun rather than grim. The shows suggested that social justice and earthly delights need not be opposed.

    Bourdain championed the traditional or peasant foods of the world, including the cheap cuts and unused animal parts that affluent Americans rarely eat. He praised freshly made street food in developing countries over American fast-food chains. He had little patience for Western moral lectures about how other people eat. In his words: "Let's call this criticism what it is: racism." He admitted there were practices abroad he found personally repellent. But he said he did not feel he held enough of a moral high ground to lecture people in developing nations.

    China came up often. He said that dismissing centuries-old cultures with contempt aggravated him, and he called objections to filming in a country where some people eat dog racist. His advice was to understand people first, including their economic and living situations. On monosodium glutamate, he said the idea that it was unhealthy was "a lie," blaming racism for the notion of Chinese restaurant syndrome.

    He took on the Middle East too. Accepting an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council, he said the world had visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity. He opened the Parts Unknown episode on Jerusalem by predicting that many would call him a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool or a self-hating Jew. The list ended with "CIA agent, and worse."

    Closer to home, he praised the Spanish-speaking immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador and other Central and South American countries who cook in American restaurants at every level. He thought they were talented, underpaid and unrecognized, and the real backbone of the industry.

    In 2017 he became a vocal critic of sexual harassment in restaurants and in Hollywood. He spoke out about the chefs Mario Batali and John Besh. After Harvey Weinstein was accused by the actress Asia Argento, he accused the director Quentin Tarantino of "complicity" in the Weinstein scandal.

  • Nancy Putkoski was the reason Bourdain left high school early. He described her as a "bad girl" who ran with a druggy crowd. She was a year ahead of him, so he graduated a year ahead of schedule to follow her to Vassar, which had only just begun admitting men. They married in 1985 and stayed together for two decades. They divorced in 2005.

    On the 20th of April 2007, he married Ottavia Busia. Their daughter, Ariane, was born that year. Bourdain said that being away from home for 250 days a year, filming, strained the marriage. Busia appeared in several No Reservations episodes, including those set in Tuscany, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Naples and Sardinia, her birthplace. They separated in 2016.

    That year, while filming the Rome episode of Parts Unknown, he met the Italian actress Asia Argento. As Argento faced criticism in Italian media and politics for her account of Weinstein, she moved to Germany. Bourdain supported her through that period.

    He also took on the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He earned a blue belt in August 2015. In 2016 he won gold at the IBJJF New York Spring International Open Championship in the Middleweight Master 5 division, for athletes aged 51 and older.

    Smoking was a long habit, roughly two packs a day. The chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu with a mid-meal "coffee and cigarette." It was a coffee custard infused with tobacco, served with a foie gras mousse. Bourdain quit in 2007 for his daughter but relapsed near the end of his life.

    Drugs shaped his younger years. In Kitchen Confidential he described a SoHo restaurant in 1981 where he and his friends were often high. He would send a busboy to Alphabet City for cannabis, cocaine, LSD and heroin, among other things. Bourdain said those substances influenced his decisions.

  • Strasbourg was the location in early June 2018, where Bourdain was working on an episode of Parts Unknown with his friend and frequent collaborator Éric Ripert. On the 8th of June, Ripert grew worried when Bourdain missed both dinner and breakfast. He went to look for him and found Bourdain dead of suicide in his room at Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg, near Colmar. Bourdain was 61. Text messages show he had argued fiercely with Asia Argento in the preceding days. She ended their relationship shortly before his death. His body bore no signs of violence, and the act appeared impulsive. Toxicology results were negative for narcotics. His body was cremated in France on the 13th of June, and his ashes were returned to the United States two days later and given to his brother Christopher.

    His mother, Gladys, told The New York Times that he was "absolutely the last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this." She added: "He had everything. Success beyond his wildest dreams." Tributes arrived from Andrew Zimmern, Gordon Ramsay, the former astronaut Scott Kelly and then-president Donald Trump. Barack Obama wrote that Bourdain "taught us about food" and its ability to "make us a little less afraid of the unknown." CNN aired a tribute program the same day, called Remembering Anthony Bourdain.

    Fans gathered outside the former Brasserie Les Halles. Cooks and restaurant owners held tribute dinners and memorials, donating net revenue to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. In August 2018, CNN announced a final season of Parts Unknown, finished with narration and interviews from featured guests. It included two retrospective episodes about the series and about Bourdain. HarperCollins announced that his publishing line would close once its remaining contracted books were out.

    In June 2019, Éric Ripert and José Andrés proclaimed the first annual Bourdain Day, and the Culinary Institute of America created a scholarship in his honor. That October, an auction of his belongings raised $1.8 million, with part going to the scholarship and the rest to his family. His custom Bob Kramer Steel and Meteorite Chef's Knife fetched a record $231,250.

    The documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, directed by Morgan Neville, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021. Focus Features released it on the 16th of July 2021. An unauthorized biography, Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain, followed in October 2022. In August 2024, a biopic titled Tony was reported in the works. A24 was negotiating to acquire it, with Matt Johnson attached to direct and Dominic Sessa to play Bourdain.

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Common questions

What was Anthony Bourdain's breakthrough book?

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, published in 2000, grew from his 1999 New Yorker essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" and became a New York Times bestseller.

Which television networks did Bourdain host shows on?

He hosted A Cook's Tour on the Food Network, No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel, and Parts Unknown on CNN.

What happened to Bourdain in Beirut in 2006?

His crew was filming No Reservations when the Israel-Lebanon conflict broke out. They were evacuated by the United States Marine Corps on the 20th of July 2006, and the resulting episode was nominated for an Emmy.

How did the Travel Channel and Bourdain part ways?

He announced his departure in May 2012. He later wrote that new ownership had used his voice and image to suggest he endorsed a car brand.

What honors have been created in his memory?

Éric Ripert and José Andrés proclaimed the first Bourdain Day in June 2019, and the Culinary Institute of America established a scholarship in his honor.

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  41. 41NewsAnthony Bourdain's fave Tijuana restaurants and barsKeli Dailey — July 12, 2012
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  51. 51Coming Soon: The Layover
  52. 52FIGHTING MAD
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  58. 58'Parts Unknown' Ethiopia: Just the One-LinersBrenna Houck — Eater — October 25, 2015
  59. 59Anthony Bourdain Has Never Seen a City Like Lagos BeforeChris Fuhrmeister — Eater — October 11, 2017
  60. 60CNN's 'Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown' Far West TexasChris Fuhrmeister — October 21, 2018
  61. 61NewsCNN's 'Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown' Armenia-Artsakh Episode to Air May 20April 10, 2018
  62. 62The Mind of a ChefAnthony Bourdain
  63. 63ABC announces midseason start datesLynette Rice — Entertainment Weekly — December 4, 2012
  64. 64MagazineAnthony Bourdain dishes on writing for 'Treme'Archana Ram — February 17, 2011
  65. 65NewsToday in 'Treme': Anthony Bourdain is writing restaurant scenes for season twoPeter Kramer
  66. 66Magazine14 In Which Marge Simpson Becomes a Food BloggerElizabeth Gunnison
  67. 67Here's Anthony Bourdain's 'Bastard Chef' Archer CharacterAmy McKeever — Eater — February 8, 2013
  68. 68Anthony Bourdain Lends His Culinary Expertise in Nickelodeon's Hit Animated Series Sanjay and CraigViacom — November 5, 2014
  69. 69NewsHow One Company Convinced Anthony Bourdain To Shill As It Rebrands ScotchElizabeth Segran — March 3, 2015
  70. 70NewsAnthony Bourdain Adds 'Book Publisher' To ResumeSeptember 12, 2011
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  74. 74NewsBourdain's imprint to end after contracted books come outWTOP — June 8, 2018
  75. 75From Lena Dunham to Stormzy: the world of the celebrity book imprintJake Nevins — July 6, 2018
  76. 76Watch Anthony Bourdain in 'The Big Short': How He Explained the Financial Crash With Flair (Video)
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  78. 78'WASTED! The Story of Food Waste' premieres On Demand
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  82. 82'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Collection 7': More Travel Adventures with the Restless ChefSarah Boslaugh — October 1, 2012
  83. 83AL: Julkkiskokki ahmaisi puoli kiloa mustaamakkaraa (in Finnish)
  84. 84IS: Anthony Bourdain rakastui Suomen vierailullaan mielipiteitä jakavaan perinneruokaan: "Good stuff!" (in Finnish)
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  86. 86Anthony BourdainSean O'Neal — January 8, 2008
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  103. 103Sound OpinionsAmerican Public Media — June 26, 2009
  104. 104The Nine Best Guests on Anthony Bourdain's No ReservationsPatty Miranda — July 7, 2012
  105. 105How Rock Music Shaped 'Bad Boy' Chef Anthony BourdainRob Smith — June 8, 2018
  106. 106Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan Share Sha-La-La-ing Anthony Bourdain Theme SongApril 15, 2013
  107. 107NewsAnthony Bourdain and Wife Ottavia Busia Separating After Nine Years of MarriageMegan French — September 19, 2016
  108. 108MagazineMonitor: Celebrity news for the week of May 11, 2007Lindsay Soll — May 11, 2007
  109. 109Bourdain Talks Life After DivorceMSN — September 23, 2016
  110. 110Anthony Bourdain shows off romance with Italian star Asia ArgentoMay 16, 2017
  111. 111NewsAnthony Bourdain And Girlfriend Asia Argento Make It Instagram OfficialBrittany Wong — May 17, 2017
  112. 112Inside Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento's Romantic RelationshipSierra Marquina — May 17, 2017
  113. 113Asia Argento delivers searing speech calling Cannes festival Weinstein's 'hunting ground'Daniela Silva — May 21, 2018
  114. 114Television production is a tough business.Anthony Bourdain — June 3, 2018
  115. 115Argento denies sexual assault, says Bourdain made paymentJake Coyle — 21 August 2018
  116. 116NewsAnthony Bourdain receives blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-JitsuAugust 20, 2015
  117. 117NewsPhotos: BJJ blue belt Anthony Bourdain wins gold at New York OpenAnton Tabuena — April 10, 2016
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  119. 119Anthony Bourdain Speaks His Mind with No ReservationsJoseph Hudak — January 7, 2008
  120. 120NewsCNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61Brian Stelter — June 8, 2018
  121. 122NewsFrom Gonzo Chef to World-Renowned Traveler: Remembering Anthony Bourdain's Life Behind the CameraMatt Miller — November 11, 2018
  122. 123NewsChef Anthony Bourdain found dead at 61BBC News — June 8, 2018
  123. 124The Latest: Chef recalls serving Bourdain regional fareJune 9, 2018
  124. 125NewsLe chef américain Anthony Bourdain est décédé, selon son employeur CNNJune 8, 2018
  125. 126Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide at 61Alex Lockie
  126. 127Anthony Bourdain Told Asia Argento 'You Were Reckless with My Heart' in Last Texts Before His Death
  127. 128Prosecutor: No evidence of any foul play in Bourdain deathThomas Adamson — Associated Press — June 10, 2018
  128. 129Asia Argento Shared Cryptic Message Hours Before Anthony Bourdain's Apparent SuicideAurelie Corinthios — June 8, 2018
  129. 130NewsAnthony Bourdain Toxicology Report: No Narcotics in His SystemKim Severson — June 22, 2018
  130. 131MagazineAnthony Bourdain Cremated in France: SourcePeter Mikelbank — June 13, 2018
  131. 132Magazine'He Had Everything.' Anthony Bourdain's Mother Says She Never Thought He Would Die by SuicideJennifer Calfas — June 9, 2018
  132. 133MagazineWatching Anthony Bourdain Made Me Feel More Connected to Earth During My Year in SpaceScott Kelly — Meredith Corporation — June 8, 2018
  133. 134NewsChef and TV Host Anthony Bourdain Dies at Age 61Mahera Bonner — Hearst Magazines — June 8, 2018
  134. 135"Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer." This is how I'll remember Tony. He taught us about food — but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown. We'll miss him.Barack Obama — June 8, 2018
  135. 136CNN Sets Tribute to Anthony BourdainStaff — June 8, 2018
  136. 137Fans Pay Tribute to Anthony Bourdain Outside New York City Restaurant Where He Once WorkedJune 10, 2018
  137. 138NewsAnthony Bourdain Memorials Are Popping up at Restaurants Around the WorldCailey Rizzo
  138. 139NewsAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown to Air Final Season This Fall on CNNRyan Schwartz — August 1, 2018
  139. 140NewsAnthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown' has a final-season premiere dateGael Fashingbauer Cooper
  140. 141NewsAnthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Will Say Goodbye with One Final SeasonLaura Bradley
  141. 142News6 Ways to Celebrate Anthony BourdainNatalie B. Compton — June 25, 2019
  142. 143NewsBourdainDay Anthony Bourdain '78 Legacy ScholarshipThe Culinary Institute of America
  143. 144NewsAuction of Anthony Bourdain's personal items including chef's knife raises $1.8mChelsea Ritschel — November 9, 2019
  144. 145Announcing The Feature Film Lineup For Tribeca 2021April 20, 2021
  145. 146Anthony Bourdain Documentary 'Roadrunner' Hitting Theaters This SummerRebecca Rubin — April 23, 2021
  146. 147The Last, Painful Days of Anthony BourdainSeverson, Kim — September 27, 2022
  147. 148A24 Circling Anthony Bourdain Biopic 'Tony' From Star Thrower Entertainment With 'The Holdovers' Breakout Dominic Sessa In Talks To Star: The DishJustin Kroll — August 12, 2024
  148. 149NewsAnthony Bourdain biopic titled 'Tony' in the works, with 'The Holdovers' actor Dominic Sessa to starAugust 13, 2024
  149. 150'Tony' Trailer: Anthony Bourdain Biopic From A24 Stars Dominic Sessa as the Iconic Chef in His Younger YearsArushi Jacob — 2026-05-05
  150. 151Anthony Bourdain, Filmmaker
  151. 152You can now take a college course on all things Anthony Bourdain | CNNKathleen Rellihan — September 28, 2018
  152. 153NewsWhat Bourdain Gave UsDavid Klion — June 8, 2018
  153. 154Bourdain, Anthony (2006). The Nasty Bits. New York: Bloomsbury.
  154. 155Bourdain, Anthony (2001). A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal. New York: Bloomsbury.
  155. 156Anthony Bourdain on Sichuan Peppers, Sex, Eating Dogs, and Political CorrectnessAlexander Bisley — December 29, 2016
  156. 157'Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown' in Sichuan: Just the One-LinersOctober 16, 2016
  157. 158Anthony Bourdain shone a different light on the Middle EastAngela Dewan et al. — June 8, 2018
  158. 159Master chef Douglas Rodriguez, on the July 8, 2009 episode of Top Chef Masters, stated that 60% of restaurant kitchen workers in the U.S. are Latinos.
  159. 160BookA Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect MealAnthony Bourdain — Bloomsbury — 2001
  160. 161BookThe Nasty BitsAnthony Bourdain — Bloomsbury — 2006
  161. 162NewsAnthony Bourdain Wonders What He Could Have DoneIsaac Chotiner — October 24, 2017
  162. 163Anthony Bourdain Writes Essay About Allegations Against Mario Batali and Ken FriedmanMegan Friedman — December 13, 2017
  163. 164NewsAnthony Bourdain takes aim at Harvey Weinstein
  164. 165NewsAnthony Bourdain blasts James Corden over late night host's controversial Weinstein jokesOctober 17, 2017
  165. 166NewsHarvey Weinstein: Anthony Bourdain accuses Quentin Tarantino of 'complicity' in Hollywood scandalRoisin O'Connor — October 30, 2017
  166. 167NewsBon Appetit names award winnersSeptember 24, 2001
  167. 168Guild Of Food WritersGfw.co.uk
  168. 169Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America MembersJames Beard Foundation
  169. 170Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
  170. 1712012 Honorary Award Recipient Anthony BourdainClio Awards — September 2012
  171. 172NewsCritics' Choice TV Awards 2012June 18, 2012
  172. 173The Taste – Awards and nominationsAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences
  173. 174Bourdain's Parts Unknown Wins Two EmmysGrub Street — September 16, 2013
  174. 175Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Wins Outstanding Info Series in Primetime Creative Arts Emmy AwardsCnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com — August 16, 2014
  175. 176Press Release: 73rd Annual Award WinnersPeabody Awards
  176. 177Anthony Bourdain: Parts UnknownPeabody Awards
  177. 178NewsAnthony Bourdain Receives Honorary Doctorate from the CIAThe Culinary Institute of America
  178. 179BookKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain — Bloomsbury — 2000

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