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<p><a href="/biography/anthony-bourdain">Chef</a> <a href="/biography/anthony-bourdain">Anthony Michael Bourdain</a> (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American <a href="/biography/anthony-bourdain">television personality</a> who starred in programs devoted to exploring international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. In 1978, Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked in various professional kitchens throughout his career, including several years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. His best-selling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly was the book that first made him famous (2000).</p>

<h2>Education & Culinary training</h2>

<p>Bourdain previously wrote that the love of food he has immediately begun during his youth. The first time he tried an oyster while on vacation in France in an oyster fisherman's boat that his affections for food kindled. Anthony graduated in 1973 from Dwight-Englewood School and continued his education in Vassar College for the next two years before dropping out. Alongside college Anthony also worked at the Massachusetts restaurants in Provincetown. His experience and exposure during his time working for Massachusetts restaurants ignited his decision to take up cooking as a choice of career in the future.</p>

<p>In 1978, Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. Only after he had graduated in 1978, he go on further to supervise and run kitchens of several well-known restaurants such as Sullivan's, One-Fifth Avenue, and Supper Club. Based primarily in Manhattan, Brasserie Les Halles hired Anthony as the executive chef. For several years, he remained in Brasserie Les Halles as the executive chef.</p>

<h2>Advocacy and Interests</h2>

<p>The deliciousness and high standard of street food which is freshly prepared within foreign, particularly those countries which are yet developing, has continuously been praised by Bourdain. He has also acknowledged the talent of immigrants from Mexico, Spain, and Ecuador who are working as chefs or cooks in US restaurants. Bourdain openly praises them for being the very backbone of American restaurants.</p>

<h2>Writing</h2>

<p>Bourdain has, to date, written three New York bestselling books, one of which is Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly was followed by a sequel called Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine o the World of Food and the People Who Cook, which was released in 2010. His second New York Times bestseller was a nonfiction book called 'A Cook's Tour', which was published in 2001. 'A Cook's tour' consisted of detailed accounts of Anthony's personal experiences during his travels and food from around the globe. Another bestseller published in 2006 by Anthony was 'The Nasty Bits', which also pertained to essays whose primary focus was always food.</p>

<p>Other publications by Anthony were printed via many renowned agencies such as Limb by Limb, Scotland on Sunday, The Times, The Observer, Food Arts, The Independent, The Times, and many more. Bourdain also took up writing a blog over the internet of Top Chef; the blog itself gained a vast audience and was nominated for the best blog category of Webby Award. A graphic novel with 'Get Jiro!' was also co-written by Anthony in 2012 for DC Comics/Vertigo.</p>

<h2>Television</h2>

<p>The Bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, eventually was followed by an offer for Bourdain to host his own worldwide travel as well as a food show. The show was called 'A Cook's Tour' premiered at the beginning of 2002 and continued till 2003 with 35 episodes.</p>

<p>Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations premiered in July 2005 on the Travel Channel. A year after the No Reservations' premiere, Bourdain and his crew got caught between the Isreal-Lebanon conflict, which broke out. Boudain and his crew were in Beirut when the aggression broke out, leading to the filming of a wide range of intense first-hand encounters during the conflict. The crew, Bourdain, andh other American citizens were finally evacuated on July 20 by the United States Marine Corps. The filmed ordeal witnessed within Beirut was compiled and aired later on during the 3rd week of August 2006. The Beirut episode was then also nominated in 2007 under a category of The Emmy's.</p>

<p>'The Layover' consisted of ten episodes, each of which was one hour long in duration, and hosted by Bourdain was also a project under The Travel Channel. The Layover was premiered in 2011. However, in 2012 Bourdain announced the decision to leave the Travel Channel, reasons of which were further discussed on his blog.</p>

<p>On April 14, 2013, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was premiered by CNN, which Bourdain hosted. The show itself was based upon foreign cultures as well as cuisines. An episode that aired in Sept 2016 shot in Vietnam also featured <a href="/biography/barack-obama">President</a> <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a>.</p>

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<h2>Personal Life</h2>

<p>During his high school years at Dwight-Englewood School in the 1970s, Bourdain was in a relationship with Nancy Putkoski. He referred to her as "a bad girl," older than him and "a member of a druggy crowd." As a result, Bourdain graduated one year ahead of schedule in order to follow Putkoski to Vassar College, which had only recently begun admitting male students. Between the ages of 17 and 19, he attended the university. He then went on to study at the Culinary Institute of America, which was only a 15-minute drive away from Vassar. The couple tied the knot in 1985 and remained together for nearly two decades before separating in 2005.</p>

<p>On April 20, 2007, he tied the knot with Ottavia Busia, who would become a mixed martial artist herself.</p>

<p>Ariane, the couple's daughter, was born in the year 2007. Bourdain claimed that being away from his family for 250 days a year while working on his television shows has strained the relationship between him and his wife. Busia appeared in several episodes of No Reservations, most notably those set in Sardinia, Tuscany, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, and Naples, all of which was filmed in her hometown. In 2016, the couple decided to separate. In 2016, while filming the Rome episode of Parts Unknown, Bourdain had the opportunity to meet Italian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">actress</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Asia Argento</a>.</p>

<p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Argento</a>, a New Yorker article published in October 2017 revealed that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Argento</a> had been sexually assaulted by <a href="/biography/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a> in the 1990s. When her account was criticized in Italian media and politics, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Argento</a> decided to leave the country and settle in Germany in order to escape what she described as an Italian culture of "victim-blaming." The actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Argento</a> delivered a speech on May 20, 2018, following the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. She referred to the festival as "<a href="/biography/harvey-weinstein">Weinstein</a>'s hunting ground" and claimed that she was raped by <a href="/biography/harvey-weinstein">Weinstein</a> in Cannes when she was 21 years old. "And even tonight, sitting among you, there are those who still need to be held accountable for their conduct against women," she continued. During that time, Bourdain was a strong <a href="/biography/anthony-bourdain">supporter</a> of her. On June 3, 2018, Bourdain shared a video of the cast and crew celebrating during the production of the show, which featured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento">Asia Argento</a> as director and him and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Doyle">Chris Doyle</a> as executive producers.</p>

<p>A blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu was earned by Bourdain in August 2015, after years of training and practice.</p>

<p>In 2016, he won gold at the IBJJF New York Spring International Open Championship in the Middleweight Master 5 (age 51 and older) division of the Middleweight Master 5 division.</p>

<p>Bourdain had a reputation for being a heavy smoker. When Anthony Bourdain was in New York, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keller">Thomas Keller</a> served him a 20-course tasting menu that included "coffee and cigarette," a coffee custard infused with tobacco, served with a foie gras mousse as a tribute to Bourdain's daily two-pack of cigarettes. Bourdain gave up smoking in 2007 for the sake of his daughter, but he returned to it near the end of his life.</p>

<p>Having previously experimented with cocaine, heroin, and LSD, Bourdain wrote in Kitchen Confidential about his time working in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981. He and his friends were frequently high on drugs. Drugs, according to Bourdain, had an impact on his decisions, and he admitted to sending a busboy to Alphabet City in order to obtain cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine, and heroin.</p>

<h2>Death</h2>

<p>In early June 2018, Bourdain was in Strasbourg, working on an episode of Parts Unknown with his frequent collaborator and friend, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Ripert">Éric Ripert</a>. When Bourdain failed to show up for dinner and breakfast on June 8, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Ripert">Ripert</a> became concerned. He later discovered Bourdain dead in his room at the Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg, near Colmar, having committed suicide by hanging himself.</p>

<p>The public prosecutor for Colmar, Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, stated that Bourdain's body showed no signs of violence and that the suicide appeared to have been an impulsive decision.</p>

<p>Rocquigny du Fayel revealed that Bourdain's toxicology results were negative for narcotics, with only a trace of a therapeutic non-narcotic medication detected in his system. After his death on June 13, 2018, Bourdain's body was cremated in France, and his ashes were returned to the United States two days later.</p>

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