His love of food and travel is well known but he was also very heavily into Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and his loss has had a large impact on that community as well. Seems like he was a very popular person.
This is the Les Halles episode. It's mostly Mexicans and central Americans (like a massive part of the restaurant industry in the US is). The epicness starts at 33:00
That was awesome. Thanks for posting that.
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Whenever I hear people say, "suicide is the easy way out", I know that person is pretty much what I call a lowest common denominator thinker.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure everything leading up to finally offing yourself is likely pretty damned difficult.
It's generally from a lack of education, to which a lot of the blame falls on our government for failing to properly teach our population about mental illnesses.
It's getting way better, but Canadian society as a whole is still pretty ignorant towards illnesses and disease they haven't experienced in their families or close circles.
And when ignorance comes into play with something that produces results that surprise or confuse (aka suicide, schizophrenia) human beings turn ugly and tend to push away science and facts because they want to demonize.
Like when a paranoid schizophrenic kills someone, you'll see the educated view of how it works and how it could happen to anyone, and how jail is literally useless.
But anyone who isn't well versed in the illness will fall back on simple human nature - "I can't imagine how someone could kill someone without knowing they did it so therefore he shall be judged as a regular person without this so called paranoid schizophrenia, which makes him a despicable monster who should never see the light of day despite what any stupid doctor or health professional says".
It quickly turns into a need for justice and the facts get in the way of that human need so they are ignored/pushed away. Those who call suicide selfish are on the same wavelength. They can't accept it if they experience it before being properly educated and react accordingly and will rarely give into facts that counter what they believe (just like politics).
His love of food and travel is well known but he was also very heavily into Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and his loss has had a large impact on that community as well. Seems like he was a very popular person.
my favorite episode was the Okinawa one when the 70 year old master gave Bourdain a lesson about pressure points.
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David Simon posted a nice tribute about Bourdain yesterday.
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Bourdain insisted that creative and personal growth is, for all us, dependent on encounters with The Other, on a journey from the known and comfortable to the alien and disorienting. ... That’s what he argued successfully in our drama. That’s what he argued successfully in his world journeys on television.
He was precise when he told Barack Obama that he wished more Americans had passports. And indeed, it’s hard to argue against the idea that the portion of our republic that hasn’t ventured abroad is the deadweight now dragging us into national mediocrity, insisting that all points of the compass save ours lack basic liberties, or don’t exalt human values, or don’t eat, drink, cure the sick, proscribe violence or educate fools with greater efficacy than we do in this fading realm. They won’t go there. They won’t dare. Yet they already know how exceptional America is and how miserable and frightening the rest of the world must surely be.
Go, move, see, feel, eat – grow. The Church of Bourdain was founded not merely on the ever-more-vulnerable national credo that all Americans are created equal, but on the much more ambitious insistence that this declaration might be applied wherever you wandered and with whomsoever you cooked or shared a meal. He remains, for many of us, the American that we wish ourselves to be in the world’s sight. To have him widely displayed as our countryman, open to and caring about the rest of the world, and being so amid our current political degradation — this was ever more important and heroic. To lose him now, amid so many fear-mongering, xenophobic tantrums by those engaged in our misrule, is hideous and grievous.
But make no mistake: It wasn’t love of food that led Bourdain to the embrace of a shared human experience, of a world merely hiding its great commonalities behind vast and obvious culinary variations. It was the other way around. Tony was intensely political, a man always aware of those at the margins, or those who seem never to be reached by wealth or status or recognition.
Bourdain wasn't really famous over here and I had only vaguely known his name, but I recently saw the Parts Unknown episode about Armenia with Serj Tankian and absolutely loved it. Looks like a series I could get hooked to.
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Bourdain wasn't really famous over here and I had only vaguely known his name, but I recently saw the Parts Unknown episode about Armenia with Serj Tankian and absolutely loved it. Looks like a series I could get hooked to.
That was a great episode.
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I was never personally a fan, but I knew of the guy and respected him. I actually hate food and eating, so I was never really interested in his shows or books, but I know plenty of people that were.
This is heartbreaking for so many and it seems to have affected a lot of you quite profoundly. I am more into music, so I personally have still not recovered from the loss of Chris Cornell. I can't listen to his voice and it'll be a while before I can again
Thank you, everyone, for sharing your travel stories---I wonder if he knew how much of a positive impact he had on people? My condolences.
