Results: A Life Well Spent -- Anthony Bourdain
Published on 06/10/2018
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The shocking news Friday that chef, world-traveller and story teller Anthony Bourdain was found dead in France, of an apparent suicide surprised every body. On his award-winning CNN series, "Parts Unknown," Bourdain brought the world home to TV viewers. Through the simple act of sharing meals, he showcased both the diversity of cultures and cuisines, and yet how much we all have in common. Were you a fan of Bourdain and his show?
Fan of Bourdain
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Fan of his show
25%
490 votes
Not a fan of either
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675 votes
Did not know who he was
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598 votes
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Bourdain's death shook television viewers around the world. The most common sentiment: "I feel like I've lost a friend." Many of his viewers felt they really knew the man, getting to see him through the eyes of the camera. Viewers felt connected to Bourdain through his fearless travels, his restless spirit and his magical way with words. And it was his way with words that is being quoted now after his death. Here are just a few of his musings about travel, food and life in general. How many of these do you enjoy?
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you.
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If you're commenting on how crunchy-delicious your salad is while your host is missing two limbs, you might want to ask them how that happened, and often you will get a story that's far more interesting than what's on your plate.
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The people I admire — whoever they are, wherever they are — are people who are proud, who do things with love [and] feel a sense of responsibility to others," [...] "The desire to love and be responsible to another person, to commit to another human being — these are virtues
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
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Though I've spent half my life watching people, guiding them, trying to anticipate their moods, motivations and actions, running from them, manipulating and being manipulated by them, they remain a mystery to me. People confuse me. Food doesn't. [...] I just know what I see. And I understand it. It makes perfect sense.
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I'll be right here. Until they drag me off the line. I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world
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Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go
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If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch. Move.
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often though, they hurt.
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All of them
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None of them
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In those travels, Bourdain often shared meals with the natives of whatever country he was in, never shying away from eating anything. Here are a few of the strange things he ate. Are there any on this list you would try?
Balut, or fetal duck egg, is not for weak stomachs. In 2006, Anthony Bourdain ate balut while visiting Vietnam, though it is most traditionally beloved in the Philippines.
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In Saigon, on his first TV series, A Cook's Tour in 2013, Bourdain swallowed a beating cobra heart. He likened it to a "very athletic, aggressive oyster"
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While filming in the Moroccan dessert for his first series, A Cook's Tour, Bourdain ate roasted sheep's testicle.
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Bourdain tried stinky tofu while visiting China. Stinky tofu is a fermented tofu, and, funnily enough, it is the one thing his adventurous eating counterpart Andrew Zimmern could barely swallow.
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While filming No Reservations, Bourdain spends time with Inuits in Quebec, Canada, and participates in a seal hunt. To make sure he gets the full experience, Bourdain says, he is offered a piece of everything. Bourdain eats some of the liver, kidney, and the eyeball. Offering the eyeball is seen as an act of kindness and generosity toward guests.
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Hákarl, heavily ammoniated fermented shark from Iceland, one of the world's stinkiest foods, is the one thing that Anthony Bourdain truly finds revolting
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In Namibia, Bourdain said he ate the worst meal of his life--that worst meal is unwashed warthog an*s, filled with dust, sand, and fecal matter.
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I'd try all of these
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I would not try any of these
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Lastly, on a serious note, once again, people are expressing shock and disbelief that Bourdain took his own life. Most are saying he seemed to have it all -- a sentiment that seems to be all too familiar. His own mother was quoted as saying "He is absolutely the last person in the world I would have ever dreamed would do something like this". Once again, it goes back to the need to take mental illness and depression "out of the closet" and have people share how they feel, and how we can help. Is there anyone in your life right now you feel may be depressed or even contemplating suicide?
No
37%
735 votes
Might be
22%
430 votes
Yes, there is
14%
275 votes
Not sure
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551 votes
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