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WHO IS ANTHONY BOURDAIN?

Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American chef, author, and television personality. He was noted by popular sources as one of the most influential chefs in the world.He was a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world.

WHAT KILLED ANTHONY BOURDAIN?

On Friday CNN confirmed Bourdain’s death and said the cause of death was suicide.

“It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement Friday morning. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.”

HOW MANY YEARS WAS HE BEFORE HIS DEATH

According to CNN New York Anthony Bourdain, was a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, he died at the age of  61.

‘THE ELVIS OF BAD BOY CHEFS’

Bourdain was a master of his crafts — first in the kitchen and then in the media. Through his TV shows and books, he explored the human condition and helped audiences think differently about food, travel and themselves.

He advocated for marginalized populations and campaigned for safer working conditions for restaurant staffs.
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Along the way, he received practically every award the industry has to offer.
In 2013, Peabody Award judges honored Bourdain and “Parts Unknown” for “expanding our palates and horizons in equal measure.”

“He’s irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending, never obsequious,” the judges said. “People open up to him and, in doing so, often reveal more about their hometowns or homelands than a traditional reporter could hope to document.”

The Smithsonian once called him “the original rock star” of the culinary world, “the Elvis of bad boy chefs.”
In 1999, he wrote a New Yorker article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” that became a best-selling book in 2000, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.”

First, he hosted “A Cook’s Tour” on the Food Network, then moved to “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” on the Travel Channel. “No Reservations” was a breakout hit, earning two Emmy Awards and more than a dozen nominations.

In 2013 both Bourdain and CNN took a risk by bringing him to the news network still best known for breaking news and headlines. Bourdain quickly became one of the principal faces of the network and one of the linchpins of the prime-time schedule.

Season 11 of “Parts Unknown” premiered on CNN last month.

“We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions,” he said, “we tend to get some really astonishing answers.”

Bourdain’s death happened after fashion designer Kate Spade hanged herself in an apparent suicide at her Manhattan apartment on Tuesday.

Suicide is a growing problem in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a survey Thursday showing suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30%, the government report finds

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HOW DID ANTHONY BOURDAIN STARTED HIS  CULINARY CAREER

Bourdain wrote that his love of food was kindled in his youth while on a family vacation in France, when he tried his first oyster on an oyster fisherman’s boat.

He graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in 1973. He attended Vassar College, dropping out after two years, and at the same time working in Provincetown, Massachusetts, seafood restaurants, which sparked his decision to pursue cooking as a career. Bourdain went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America, graduating in 1978.

From there he went on to run various restaurant kitchens in New York City—including the Supper Club,One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s. In 1998 he became executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles, based in Manhattan with additional locations at the time in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan.

He remained executive chef there for many years. Though he was no longer formally employed at Brasserie Les Halles, he maintained a relationship with the restaurant, where he was described as recently as January 2014 as their “chef-at-large”. After bankruptcy, Les Halles closed in 2017