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Anthony Bourdain

PRODUCER · BORN 1956 · DIED 2018

Anthony Bourdain

Born
25 June 1956
Died
8 June 2018

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Anthony Bourdain (25 June 1956 – 8 June 2018) was a producer.

9 Interesting Facts About Anthony Bourdain

  1. #001

    Initial reports placed his suicide in Paris, later in Strasbourg, but Bourdain in fact died in Kaysersberg, a small town in the Haut-Rhin department of France. The picturesque town is chiefly known as the birthplace of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, public prosecutor in Colmar, France, stated that Bourdain hanged himself at Le Chambard, a luxury hotel in Kaysersberg. His body was found by Eric Ripert, the celebrated French chef and a close friend.

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  2. #002

    Jose Meirelles, the owner of Les Halles, initially wanted him to use the French form of his name, Antoine-Michel, over Bourdain's objections.

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  3. #003

    Among the strangest foods he ever ate were "Balut" (a developing, feathered bird embryo, boiled and eaten straight from the shell); "Raw Seal Eyeball" (tried while dining with Inuit in Canada); "Roasted Sheep's Testicles" (eaten in the Moroccan desert); "Bull's Penis & Testicles"; "Hákarl" (fermented shark with a strong ammonia smell); "Cobra Heart" (cut from a live snake and eaten while still beating); "Maggot Fried Rice" (self-explanatory); and "Warthog Anus" (the worst meal of his life, eaten with a tribe in Namibia).

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  4. #004

    Get Jiro!, Bourdain's comic, unfolds in a near-future Los Angeles torn by a culinary blood war, where top chefs hold the status of crime lords.

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  5. #005

    Hungry Ghosts, another comic by Bourdain, likewise centers on international master chefs, though it throws in demons and the Japanese Edo-period game Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai.

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  6. #006

    Bourdain called his first TV show, "A Cook's Tour," his "first, stumbling, nascent attempts at making travel/food television."

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  7. #007

    The beating cobra heart Bourdain ate appeared on "A Cook's Tour," not on "No Reservations."

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  8. #008

    Bourdain ranked the warthog rectum among the "worst meals of his life," yet the most disgusting thing he ever ate, he said, was a McNugget.

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  9. #009

    Bourdain eventually warmed to Emeril Lagasse, but he still considered Lagasse's show "unwatchable."

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