Tag: anthony bourdain

“I just think it’s lonelier without him in the world.”

“Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?”

With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.

Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.

As Emeril Lagasse puts it, “You can’t have a successful service in a restaurant without a great dishwasher.”

How the chaotic ’70s shaped the food writer’s literary trajectory.

In our era of Whole Foods, slow foods and meal worship, many Americans have become fixated on both the pleasures and ethics of eating. As chefs became celebrities and food writing earned its own anthology series, simple eaters transformed into locavores who write Yelp reviews and buy into the marketing idea that we can somehow […]

Bourdain’s shows have grown more visually complex and cinematic over the years, using intricate editing and atmospheric slo-mo shots to add mystery and gravitas. Episodes are often directly inspired by Bourdain’s film passions. A season 2 trip into Tokyo’s nightlife underbelly–complete with segments on bondage and S&M–was informed by the work of Tokyo Fist director […]

Laurie Woolever, in The Billfold, on how she ended up becoming Anthony Bourdain’s assistant: With my dad’s help, I took out a loan and did a 6-month professional course at the French Culinary Institute, while continuing to work part-time for the family for a few months. I soon learned that I was poorly equipped to […]