Anthony Bourdain Redgate chef who
reported from the world's tables is dead
at 61 Anthony Bourdain
who's darkly funny memoir about life in
New York City restaurant kitchens made
him of celebrity chef and touched off
his second career as a journalist food
expert and social activist was found
dead on Friday in his hotel room in
France he was 61 his death was being
treated as a suicide Christian de Rossi
could meet new fatal the prosecutor for
the city of Col mark in the Alsace
region near where mr. Bourdain was found
said the death was by hanging at this
stage we have no reason to suspect foul
play
he said Mr Bourdain's lasting work was
not in American kitchens it was on
television where he ate noodles in Hanoi
with President Barack Obama sucked on
soft boiled turtle eggs at the market
stock in Colombia and stopped to
appreciate handmade spring rolls in
Cambodia and route to interview a member
of the Opposition government in his 2000
memoir Kitchen Confidential mr. Bourdain
introduced a thrillingly profane
aggressively truthful voice that
translated effortlessly to the screen
where he proved that he would eat
anything go anywhere and say anything on
camera his early public persona the
macho unrepentant drug loving chef
evolved into that of a clear-eyed
crusader for global food justice
recently mr. Bourdain had emerged as a
leading male voice in support of the May
2 movement in the wake of rape and abuse
allegations against the film producer
Harvey Weinstein notably in support of
his girlfriend
the Italian actor Asia Argento mr.
Bourdain had traveled to the all-size
region near Frances border with Germany
with a television production crew to
record the nepo sowed of his show parts
unknown on Siena
the network said it is with
extraordinary sadness we can confirm the
death of our friend and colleague CNN
said in a statement his mother Gladys
boarding who was a long time
editor at the New York Times said she
had no indication that mr. Bourdain
might have been thinking
no suicide he is absolutely the last
person in the world I would have ever
dreamed would do something like this
miss Bourdain said parrot right Bert a
celebrity chef and restaurateur who
appeared with mr. Bourdain on several of
his shows found him unresponsive
CNN reported mr. Bourdain was staying at
lead chambers a luxury hotel in the
village of car burglar Anthony was a
dear friend mr. Reichert said in a
statement he was an exceptional human
being so inspiring and generous one of
the great storytellers of our time who
connected with so many I wish him peace
my love and prayers are with his family
friends and loved one editors picks
launch city 24 hours of romance lust and
heartache miss Bourdain said mr.
Reichert had told her that Tony had been
in a dark mood these past couple of days
but she had no idea why he might have
decided to kill himself he had
everything she said success beyond his
wildest dreams money beyond his wildest
dreams mr. Bourdain spent more than two
decades in professional kitchens first
shopping oysters and what Sheen dishes
in a Cape Cod seafood Shack and later
cooking in high-end Manhattan kitchens
before accepting a friend's offer to fly
him to Mexico if he agreed to write a
novel it was a start of his second act
he wrote two novels while working as an
executive chef at Brasserie led valleys
before sending an unsolicited article to
The New Yorker about the dark side of
the restaurant world and its deceptions
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