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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Wow, terrible news. These things occur in groups. Spade, Bourdain...
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA/Joshua Tree
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Such a brilliant storyteller. Loved his shows that took us all over the world. Heartbreaking that he took his own life. He seemed so happy with Asia Argento and his new life committed to health and wellness through jiu jitsu. You just never know. How awful for pal Eric Eipert who found his body. How does one get past something like this?
His The Layover episode in San Fran is one for the ages. Same with Rome.
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rincon
climber
Coarsegold
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Very sad.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO Reservation......
See you on the other side
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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I’m not usually one for celebrity death posts, but Anthony did resonate with me as a philosopher of food and life. May we all find enough joy in our existence and passions to carry us forward!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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He had a lot of soul and found the words to express it, but he also seemed a tortured soul.
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Super bummed :(
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Very sad. By all appearances he had the best job in the world. Goes to show how little we know about depression - if reports of suicide are true.
The Toronado beer bar in Lower Haight of SF still has the glass he drank from on display from when he did part of a segment there several years ago. It was midday on a Tuesday, and in one of the cuts he looks around the crowded bar and asks: "Does anyone here have a job"?
RIP
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I’m not usually one for celebrity death posts, but Anthony did resonate with me as a philosopher of food and life.
Same here. I thought his commentary in his shows was poignant and honest. It was well known he had a troubled past but he never seemed to me like one to off himself.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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The rock star of gastronomy...
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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I have an email half written to him inviting him to SushiFest. Aya had offered to have her brother forward it. Figured I had a 50:50 shot of him accepting.
Thanks for that story, HK.
So sad at hearing this news...
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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^^ I bet he would have come, if his schedule allowed.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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If you haven't read his book "Kitchen Confidential" now is the time to do so.
RIP.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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What ksolem wrote.
I read Kitchen Confidential and Cook's Tour years ago - lots of fun.
A great writer, funny, loved his irreverent ways. He seemed like a genuinely cool guy in an industry full of a lot of pretentiousness. The original bad-boy chef, before all these bozos showed up in their chambray shirts and stupid tattoos.
And he plugged one of my fave restaurants in Montreal on his show!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Terrible. Kitchen Confidential is a modern classic. Must read for anyone in the food and beverage biz.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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No offense to the vegetarians and vegans among us, but this is vintage Bourdain.
But we shouldn't expect anything different from the Vegan Menace. After all, the dietary part of it is only a front for the underlying ideology which, to sum it up, is essentially the hating of humanity for being human.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Anthony Bourdain
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monolith
climber
state of being
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What goes around, comes around.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Bourdain had a great sense of humor...
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