And if food is Anthony Bourdain's medium for stories from around the world, a political message is inevitable. Today, the politics of a show that takes viewers from their couch to places they've never been to, never could imagine going to, or long to return to, takes on a whole new urgency (...)
not only through the humanity he interacts with on his show but through all his enterprises that focus on the local, the global and the communal"
in https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-anthony-bourdain-thinks-food-is-political
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"Bourdain saw food as not just sustenance — although sustenance was important — but as a way to convey a message of acceptance, respect, comfort.
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"Bourdain saw food as not just sustenance — although sustenance was important — but as a way to convey a message of acceptance, respect, comfort.
Parts Unknown got an award from MPAC (the Muslim Public Affairs Council) for its episode on Israel and Palestine. In his acceptance speech, made by video, Bourdain said:
“The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53pRNV8wAws
“Let’s not forget that Anthony Bourdain was one of the few prominent media personalities who regularly humanized Muslims and Arabs as regular, everyday people-without politicizing their lives or stories,” tweeted Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy.
“If you’re from a marginalized, dehumanized community, you know what Anthony Bourdain meant,” tweeted Mohammad Alsaafin. “To Palestinians, Iranians, Libyans, undocumented immigrants in the US,…what a loss.”
in https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/10/618443853/anthony-bourdain-serving-up-inclusion
“Let’s not forget that Anthony Bourdain was one of the few prominent media personalities who regularly humanized Muslims and Arabs as regular, everyday people-without politicizing their lives or stories,” tweeted Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy.
“If you’re from a marginalized, dehumanized community, you know what Anthony Bourdain meant,” tweeted Mohammad Alsaafin. “To Palestinians, Iranians, Libyans, undocumented immigrants in the US,…what a loss.”
in https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/10/618443853/anthony-bourdain-serving-up-inclusion
This was in 2007, before Trump’s walls or the fervent pitch of nationalist rhetoric reached its ascendance."
in https://www.glamour.com/story/anthony-bourdain-me-too-male-allyship
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"Having lived his whole life in New York, he's long been aware of President Trump. “Just when you think you can’t be stupider or go lower. Look, this is a man me and my fellow New Yorkers have known for 30, 40 years as a neighbour. So we always knew. It’s no surprise that this is the way he looks at the world. (...) Trump has no interest in talking to anybody, he talks about himself and that is the only subject which is of any interest to him. It’s a level of discourse so sub-moronic (...) You know he hasn’t eaten at a single restaurant in Washington DC other than at a steakhouse in his own hotel since he took the Presidency? Just what he eats is already damning.”
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"Closer to home, Bourdain was an early supporter of #MeToo, noting he had met several women who told him awful stories of abuse. In an interview with The Cut, Bourdain confessed he had awakened, with his girlfriend Asia Argento, to how widespread the issue of male predation was.
“I stand unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women,” he wrote on in 2017"
"Closer to home, Bourdain was an early supporter of #MeToo, noting he had met several women who told him awful stories of abuse. In an interview with The Cut, Bourdain confessed he had awakened, with his girlfriend Asia Argento, to how widespread the issue of male predation was.
“I stand unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women,” he wrote on in 2017"
in https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/10/618443853/anthony-bourdain-serving-up-inclusion
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"about his 2014 Parts Unknown episode on the heroin and opioid crisis. He addressed both the double standard of pharmaceutical companies who traffic in drug sales without the stigma of criminality and the sympathy afforded to small-town communities and rural whites (which policy makers and media outlets failed to extend to the largely black victims of the 1980s crack epidemic).
Now that the white captain of the football team and his cheerleader girlfriend in small-town America are hooked on dope,” Bourdain asserted, “maybe we’ll now stop demonizing heroin as a criminal problem and start dealing with it as the medical and public-health problem that it is, and should be.
These pharmaceutical-company executives are dope dealers,” he added, “and they should be treated worse and more roughly than dope dealers. You’ve got some disadvantaged black kid. You’re working in a one-company town, and that company happens to be a street gang selling heroin.”
in https://www.glamour.com/story/anthony-bourdain-me-too-male-allyship
These pharmaceutical-company executives are dope dealers,” he added, “and they should be treated worse and more roughly than dope dealers. You’ve got some disadvantaged black kid. You’re working in a one-company town, and that company happens to be a street gang selling heroin.”
in https://www.glamour.com/story/anthony-bourdain-me-too-male-allyship
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"As “Parts Unknown” has evolved, Anthony Bourdain has become less preoccupied with food and more concerned with the sociology and geopolitics of the places.
Since visiting Beirut, he and his team have been to Libya, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, seeking to capture how people go about their daily lives amid violent conflict.
To viewers who complain that the show has become too focussed on politics, Bourdain responds that food is politics: most cuisines reflect an amalgamation of influences and tell a story of migration and conquest, each flavor representing a sedimentary layer of history. He also points out that most shows about food are premised on a level of abundance that is unfamiliar in many parts of the world.
In an episode set in Laos, he ate freshwater fish and bamboo shoots with a man who had lost an arm and a leg when a U.S. explosive, left over from the war, detonated. In Hanoi, one of Obama’s staffers told him that, until the episode aired, some people in the White House had been unaware of the extent of the unexploded-ordnance problem in Laos.
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Nevertheless, he knows that most viewers who caught his Congo episode had read little about the conflicts there. I was reminded of how Jon Stewart, whenever someone observed that many young people got their news from “The Daily Show,” protested, unpersuasively, that he was just a comedian cracking jokes. Bourdain’s publisher, Dan Halpern, said, “Whether he likes it or not, he’s become a statesman.”
Bourdain insists that this is not the case. “I’m not going to the White House Correspondents’ dinner,” he said. “I don’t need to be laughing it up with Henry Kissinger.” He then launched into a tirade about how it sickens him, having travelled in Southeast Asia, to see Kissinger embraced by the power-lunch crowd. “Any journalist who has ever been polite to Henry Kissinger, you know, fuck that person,” he said, his indignation rising."
in https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/anthony-bourdains-moveable-feast
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Strasbourg Police reports an apparent suicide.
maybe he was carrying the burden of a walking depression or maybe it was exhaustion and burnout, and as society we can enhance the discussion about mental health awareness, mental health issues, and about the way, for most people, neurodiversity is unknown territory
(either at an individual level and in relational and group dynamics).
The reported suicide cause was 'hanging' and the local police prosecutor says there is no indication of involvement by a third person.
It was reported as a probable impulsive act (we don't know why he might have felt like 'he has lost everything' (!?) and 'there was nothing to go on for' (!?)). There's no clue about what could have provoked such an emotional turmoil.
He was recently dedicatedly enjoying the filming of a new episode in collaboration with Asia Argento and Hong Kong based cinematographer Christopher Boyle.
When somebody that is becoming an influential voice dies in a sudden unexpected way, I always doubt the cause of death reported, and Anthony Bourdain was becoming a very famous nuisance.
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update 22June2018: “No trace of narcotics, no trace of any toxic products, no trace of medicines, no trace of alcohol,” prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny told Reuters
in https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-anthonybourdain-france/no-drugs-no-alcohol-in-u-s-celebrity-chef-bourdains-body-when-he-died-prosecutor-idUSKBN1JI2IT
Lydia Tenaglia calls the show an “anthropological enterprise.”
Increasingly, Chris Collins told me, the mandate is: “Don’t tell me what you ate. Tell me who you ate with.” Bourdain, in turn, has pushed for less footage of him eating and more “B roll” of daily life in the countries he visits.
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Since visiting Beirut, he and his team have been to Libya, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, seeking to capture how people go about their daily lives amid violent conflict.
To viewers who complain that the show has become too focussed on politics, Bourdain responds that food is politics: most cuisines reflect an amalgamation of influences and tell a story of migration and conquest, each flavor representing a sedimentary layer of history. He also points out that most shows about food are premised on a level of abundance that is unfamiliar in many parts of the world.
In an episode set in Laos, he ate freshwater fish and bamboo shoots with a man who had lost an arm and a leg when a U.S. explosive, left over from the war, detonated. In Hanoi, one of Obama’s staffers told him that, until the episode aired, some people in the White House had been unaware of the extent of the unexploded-ordnance problem in Laos.
(...)
Nevertheless, he knows that most viewers who caught his Congo episode had read little about the conflicts there. I was reminded of how Jon Stewart, whenever someone observed that many young people got their news from “The Daily Show,” protested, unpersuasively, that he was just a comedian cracking jokes. Bourdain’s publisher, Dan Halpern, said, “Whether he likes it or not, he’s become a statesman.”
Bourdain insists that this is not the case. “I’m not going to the White House Correspondents’ dinner,” he said. “I don’t need to be laughing it up with Henry Kissinger.” He then launched into a tirade about how it sickens him, having travelled in Southeast Asia, to see Kissinger embraced by the power-lunch crowd. “Any journalist who has ever been polite to Henry Kissinger, you know, fuck that person,” he said, his indignation rising."
in https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/anthony-bourdains-moveable-feast
...
Strasbourg Police reports an apparent suicide.
maybe he was carrying the burden of a walking depression or maybe it was exhaustion and burnout, and as society we can enhance the discussion about mental health awareness, mental health issues, and about the way, for most people, neurodiversity is unknown territory
(either at an individual level and in relational and group dynamics).
The reported suicide cause was 'hanging' and the local police prosecutor says there is no indication of involvement by a third person.
It was reported as a probable impulsive act (we don't know why he might have felt like 'he has lost everything' (!?) and 'there was nothing to go on for' (!?)). There's no clue about what could have provoked such an emotional turmoil.
He was recently dedicatedly enjoying the filming of a new episode in collaboration with Asia Argento and Hong Kong based cinematographer Christopher Boyle.
When somebody that is becoming an influential voice dies in a sudden unexpected way, I always doubt the cause of death reported, and Anthony Bourdain was becoming a very famous nuisance.
update 22June2018: “No trace of narcotics, no trace of any toxic products, no trace of medicines, no trace of alcohol,” prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny told Reuters
in https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-anthonybourdain-france/no-drugs-no-alcohol-in-u-s-celebrity-chef-bourdains-body-when-he-died-prosecutor-idUSKBN1JI2IT
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