“How Bourdain’s work reoriented one writer’s engagement with people and places around him.”
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The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain
“When his celebrity was at its height and he couldn’t walk a street on this planet without getting recognized, jiujitsu gave Bourdain a new, anonymous world to traverse, one where he was just one of us.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘A Beautiful Contagion’: Anthony Bourdain
“I just think it’s lonelier without him in the world.”
Posted inReading List
Remembrance of Folks Past: A Reading List of the Stories We Tell
“Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?”
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Anthony Bourdain and the Missing Piece
With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes
Anthony Bourdain: 1956-2018
Anthony Boudain passed away in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, June 8th, at age 61.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
An Ode to Dishwashers, the Unsung Heroes of the Restaurant Kitchen
As Emeril Lagasse puts it, “You can’t have a successful service in a restaurant without a great dishwasher.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Cultural Revolution of Anthony Bourdain
How the chaotic ’70s shaped the food writer’s literary trajectory.
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Fiction Confidential
Before he became the patron saint of every tattooed-chef-in-a-gentrifying-neighborhood, Anthony Bourdain wrote novels. What can they tell us about the man behind the bad-boy persona?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Critiquing the Foodie
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 […]